Moderation

Everything in moderation, including moderation.

Everybody seems normal until you get to know them

Everybody seems normal until you get to know them.
— Author Unknown

Fear creates desire

Fear creates desire.
Heard on a movie on the TV

Fearful people threaten

Fearful people threaten.
— Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles

An excerpt from Shambhala - The Sacred Path of the Warrior - by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

The importance of communicating openly with others

If you tell the truth to others, then they can also be open with you — maybe not immediately, but you are giving them the opportunity to express themselves honestly as well. When you do not say what you feel, you generate confusion for yourself and confusion for others. Avoiding the truth defeats the purpose of speech as communication.

Telling the truth is also connected with gentleness. A Shambhala person speaks gently: he or she doesn't bark. Gentle speech expresses your dignity, as does having a good head and shoulders. It would be very strange if someone had a good head and shoulders and began to bark. It would be very incongruous.

If you are telling the truth, then you can speak gently, and your words will have power.

A quote from Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

The practices of the spiritual path, if done with correct understanding and application, bring results.

Results develop faith.

When faith is strong and based on certainty, it furthers practice.

Faith and practice together lead to wisdom and happiness.

Some humour

Toni Bernhard writes the blog "Turning Straw Into Gold" and she has collected some humorous quotes about health.
Humour as Medicine: 20 Quotations about Health

From the Chinese sage, Lao Tzu

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.

Life changes

A life lost.
...What's next?

Be firm but kind

Be firm, but kind.

Eccentric?

People tell me I'm eccentric. I tell them you have to be rich to be eccentric. When you are poor you're just weird.

Buddha said:

With our thoughts we make the world.

Favourite cake of the moment - Torta de Santiago

www.taste.com.au Torta de Santiago cake

Mantra Munchies

Coming soon - advice on how to cook and bake whilst imbuing the food with special energy! Does it change the molecular structure of the food?