Sunny Saturday~Feeling kinda Zen

Greetings!


Self-fulfilling prophecies~ideas that become reality simply because someone believes them.
What is the definition of a self-fulfilling prophesy? Any positive or negative expectation about circumstances, events or people that may affect a person's behavior toward them in a manner that causes those expectations to be fulfilled. Am I my own curse? Can I break my own curse?


"You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something."-Robert Pirsig.
Compassion is the very essence of a spiritual life, and the main practice of those who have devoted their lives to attaining enlightenment. Are we being compassionate beings? Am I being a compassionate being? After all this is my personal journey in which I share with you. Perhaps you know your compassion and know your happiness. I try to be compassionate. I try to be a good person. This (again) was not the intended post of the day, but after great thought this is where I am. This is where my path has brought me in this moment.


"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt."-Robert Pirsig


I feel as if I am having some Zen Richard Bach/Robert Pirsig moment with out the eloquence or the pay check. However I doubt that either thought much about the pay check.


"It is time we sought happiness from a different source. Happiness is a state of mind, so the real source of happiness must lie within the mind, not in external conditions. If our mind is pure and peaceful we shall be happy, regardless of our external circumstances, but if it is impure and un-peaceful we can never be truly happy, no matter how hard we try to change our external conditions. We could change our home or our partner countless times, but until we change our restless, discontented mind we shall never find true happiness." (http://kadampa.org/en/buddhism/venerable-geshe-kelsang-gyatso/, N/A)


Today I seek peace.
Today I seek happiness.
Today I will set my worries free-if only for today.
Today I will let go.
Today I will be thankful.
Today I wish you the same.


Love and Light!
Agoraphobia Gurl