ECKHART TOLLE — Birthday — Feb. 16, 2024 — plus Ram Dass, Paul Bowles, Paul Bouley, Rabindranath Tagore, Thich Nhat Hanh, Terence McKenna, Thomas Merton, Rumi, John O'Donohue, Charles Dickens, Judy Blume, Henry David Thoreau, Malcolm X, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac, Meister Eckhart

Do exactly what you would do if you felt most secure. Meister Eckhart

So therefore I dedicate myself to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my sufferance, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger, because I cannot dedicate myself to any human being.

Jack Kerouac

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. Walt Whitman

A wise man can play the part of a clown but a clown can't play the part of a wise man. Malcolm X

People are like books: some deceive you with their cover and others surprise you with their content.

We need the tonic of the wilderness. Henry David Thoreau

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. Judy Blume

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful. Rumi

We forge the chains we wear in life. Charles Dickens

One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.

John O'Donohue

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace. If peace mattered to you more than anything else and if you truly knew yourself to be spirit rather than "a little me," you would remain nonreactive and absolutely alert when confronted with challenging people or situations. Eckhart Tolle

Now is where love breathes. Rumi

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. Thomas Merton

Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known, you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead and get with the program of a living world and a reempowerment of the imagination.

Terence McKenna

People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me walking peacefully on earth is the real miracle. Thich Nhat Hanh

Love is the ultimate meaning of everything around us. It is not a mere sentiment; it is truth; it is the joy that is at the root of all creation.

Rabindranath Tagore

I cook as if I were in love with everyone I'm cooking for. I work best with my back against the wall. It's when some of the best things surface.

Everybody's food in America is dead food, and it's killing everybody. 1953–2024 — Paul Bouley — chef

No one can ever heap enough criticism on me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility because it's the most intense kind of message the ego can undergo. Other people's indifference is the only horror.

If I stress the various facets of unhappiness, it is because I believe unhappiness should be studied very carefully. This certainly is no time for anyone to pretend to be happy or to put his unhappiness away in the dark. You must watch your universe as it cracks above your head.

Paul Bowles

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion, and when it isn't that's where my life work lies. Ram Dass

ECKHART TOLLE — 1947 — "The Power of Now", "A New Earth".

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.

Observe your thoughts; don't believe them.

When you live in complete acceptance of what is, that is the end of all drama in your life.