Carl Jung:
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.

“A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?”

Not So Alone Again
by Sean Bowers aka Dharma Hooligan


Here again in this begrudged sense of self pity

I want to write your love song

I want to write about all things in the world

about the "system"

about the "man"

about the "peoples struggle"

and how wonderful I am for noticing someone other than myself

I want to write about the beauty of a woman

As seen through the reflection on the T window

and how if everything in my head would just shut up

I could tell you her name

I want to write about a generation of mad men

To feel a sense of kinship

I could tell you about all their idiosyncrasies

and how they define all that I am

I want to write about childhood memories

of fishing the Metoliouis with my father and my fathers father

and the first time I caught a fish with a Snoopy pole

and how spiritual it was

I want to write about how San Fransisco rain

feels on the face of a 15 year old boy

having just discovered crystal meth and punk rock

I want to write about the pride of an intellectual street thug

and how street cred means more

than anything your angry God has to offer

I want to write about the crushing defeat

of divorce

and how heroin, booze, and violence the only medication

I want to write about how the lines wrote in lust

translated as "love"

leaving a whole decade of children empty

I want to write about a community of strangers

I didn't know two days ago

whom I now love

Thank you Dharma Punx

and not so Dharma Punx

Now my family

now my friends

Always my sangha

For you I put my pen down

and sit with you in joy.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.
Babe Ruth

You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

George Washington Carver:
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

Ann Landers:
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

John Homer Miller:
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Lou Holtz:
Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

John Wooden:
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.