<![CDATA[Welcome to Feel Better about Things]]> http://feelbetteraboutthings.com/index.html?cq=1 en-us Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:05:33 GMT <![CDATA[Good Fortune]]> http://feelbetteraboutthings.com/index.html?cq=1&p=183 Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.

~Walt Whitman

]]> Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:05:33 GMT <![CDATA[Gain and Loss]]> http://feelbetteraboutthings.com/index.html?cq=1&p=182 For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

]]> Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:05:23 GMT <![CDATA[Seeking]]> http://feelbetteraboutthings.com/index.html?cq=1&p=174 You can't seem to stop your mind from racing around everywhere seeking something. That's why the Patriach said, "Hopeless fellows - using their heads to look for their heads!" You must right now turn you light around and shine it on yourselves, not go seeking somewhere else. Then you will understand that in body and mind you are no different than the patriachs and Buddhas, and that there is nothing to do.

LIN-CHI (RINZAI)

]]> Sun, 03 Jun 2007 19:16:23 GMT <![CDATA[This Moment]]> http://feelbetteraboutthings.com/index.html?cq=1&p=162 At this moment is there anything lacking?

Nirvana is right here now before our eyes.

This place is the lotus land.

This body now is the Buddha.

~Hakuin

]]> Mon, 21 May 2007 16:25:00 GMT <![CDATA[FINDING A PIECE OF THE TRUTH]]> http://feelbetteraboutthings.com/index.html?cq=1&p=158 One day Mara, the Evil One, was travelling through the villages of India with his attendants. he saw a man doing walking meditation whose face was lit up on wonder. The man had just discovered something on the ground in front of him.

Mara's attendant asked what that was and Mara replied, "A piece of truth." "Doesn't this bother you when someone finds a piece of truth, O Evil One?" his attendant asked. "No," Mara replied. "Right after this, they usually make a belief out of it."

From 108 Treasures for the Heart: A Guide for Daily Living by Benny Liow

Link to Buddhist Stories

]]> Sun, 06 May 2007 17:37:23 GMT <![CDATA[Bear and Bird Feeder]]> http://feelbetteraboutthings.com/index.html?cq=1&p=150 Never underestimate the determination of a bear!]]> Fri, 04 May 2007 17:34:57 GMT <![CDATA[Trying Something New]]> http://feelbetteraboutthings.com/index.html?cq=1&p=149 Thought for the day: Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

~Dave Barry

]]> Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:01:28 GMT <![CDATA[Spirals]]> http://feelbetteraboutthings.com/index.html?cq=1&p=148 Very cool photo gallery.]]> Sun, 29 Apr 2007 16:56:29 GMT <![CDATA[Landscape Photos]]> http://feelbetteraboutthings.com/index.html?cq=1&p=143 An excellent collection of pictures from the "Landscape Photos" blog.

Some of my Favorites.

]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:06:18 GMT <![CDATA[The Hidden Meanings of Nursery Rhymes]]> http://feelbetteraboutthings.com/index.html?cq=1&p=142

There's more to those childhood nursery rhymes than you think.

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I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
~Bill Cosby

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