Wisdom Pillows
Description: Herman Melville quote: There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody's expense but his own.
Description: Latin for "I am human, and I think that nothing of that which is human is alien to me." A quote from the Roman playwright Terence, expressing that anything human (both good and bad and in yourself and others), is something we can connect with and shouldn’t view as something we can’t relate to.
Description: This is an image of simplified Gautama Buddha, also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni or simply the Buddha. Gautama is the primary figure in Buddhism and accounts of his life, discourses, and monastic rules are believed by Buddhists to have been summarized after his death and memorized by his followers. Name Buddha” is interpreted to mean “awakened one” or sometimes “the enlightened one.”
Description: Thich Nhat Hanh, popular Zen master, says what we all know to be true and have heard in a million different ways - you can't appreciate sunshine without having first experienced rain. In these times, it helps to be reminded of that fact. Rest assured: better times - better people - are in our futures.
