Thought for today:
"There is a time in every person's life when the mere presence of another is one too many. When Buddha sought 'enlightenment,' he did it alone and not with a companion. He wanted his eyes to be capable of seeing the happiness and sadness that flits between one human mood and another; between happiness and despair. He wanted his ears to be aware of all of the suffering around him lest he ever ignored the least part of it, so he listened and listened until he was able to hear. He heard the hungry and painful cries of the anguished, tortured, starving and abandoned children in the world, much as he heard the final breath of a dying butterfly with broken wings. He heard the deafening cries of 'Freedom' and 'No more. Please, no more!' from the oppressed and the desolate. He heard the eternal silence of a lost and abandoned soul! It was only when he'd trained his nostrils to smell the flavour of innocence and a pure heart in others that he knew he had discovered it from deep within himself." William Forde: July 25th, 2013.
"There is a time in every person's life when the mere presence of another is one too many. When Buddha sought 'enlightenment,' he did it alone and not with a companion. He wanted his eyes to be capable of seeing the happiness and sadness that flits between one human mood and another; between happiness and despair. He wanted his ears to be aware of all of the suffering around him lest he ever ignored the least part of it, so he listened and listened until he was able to hear. He heard the hungry and painful cries of the anguished, tortured, starving and abandoned children in the world, much as he heard the final breath of a dying butterfly with broken wings. He heard the deafening cries of 'Freedom' and 'No more. Please, no more!' from the oppressed and the desolate. He heard the eternal silence of a lost and abandoned soul! It was only when he'd trained his nostrils to smell the flavour of innocence and a pure heart in others that he knew he had discovered it from deep within himself." William Forde: July 25th, 2013.
