Anteater / Curved Walk / Dolls

 

A Good Austin Business

 

Trees are respected in Austin

As are old dolls.

...time for every purpose....

"To everything there is a season and time 

for every purpose under heaven." —Ecclesiates 3:1

He restores my soul.

"The Lord is my sheperd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me besides still waters. He restores my soul." —23rd Psalm

Austin Car

...the love you make.

"And in the end, the love you take 

is equal to the love you make." —The Beatles

...all selfishness disappears....

"For the mind in harmony with the Source,
all selfishness disappears with not
even a trace of self-doubt. 

You can trust the universe completely." 

—Trust in Mind

...Then there is ....

...then no mountain....

 

...then no mountain....

I only kiss your shadow

 

"And how the room is softly faded
And I only kiss your shadow,
I cannot feel your hand,
You're a stranger now unto me
Lost in the dangling conversation.
And the superficial sighs,
In the borders of our lives."

—Simon & Garfunkle 

Firewood becomes ash....

 

"Firewood becomes ash, and it does not become firewood again.

Yet do not suggest that the ash is future and the firewood is past." —Eihei Dogen

In the Expert's mind the possibilities are ....

 

"In the Expert's mind the possibilities are limited.

In the Beginner's mind the possibilities are endless."

—Shunryu Suzuki

...a passing shadow gone so soon....

"We are here for only a moment,

visitors and strangers in the land

as our ancestors were before us. 

Our days on earth are like a passing shadow

gone so soon without a trace."

—1 Chronicles 29:14-16

A man and a woman and a blackbird are one.

 

I

"Among twenty snowy mountains,

The only moving thing

Was the eye of the blackbird."

IV

"A man and a woman

Are one,

A man and a woman and a blackbird

Are one."

—Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

...a dish of ice cream....

 

"The way we usually hold a relationship is that,

this relationship is ... out there, and it's supposed

to give me pleasure. In other words we make this

relationship into a dish of ice cream ... I've picked you 

out and you know what you are supposed to do."

—Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen

Phil's Icehouse

Texas Icon!

Don't get tangled in the world.

 

"Don't get tangled in the world.
Don't lose yourself in emptiness.
Be at peace in the oneness of things.
and all errors will disappear by themselves."
—Trust in Mind

...the startingly different....

"Because there is the startingly different,
there are house cat and cow."
—Song of the Jewel Mirror

With that Moon Language

Admit something:

Everyone you see, you say to them, "Love me."

Of course you do not do this out loud, 

otherwise someone would call the cops.

Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.

Why not become the one who lives with a 

full moon in each eye that is 

always saying,

With that sweet moon language,

what every other eye in this world is dying to hear?

—Hafiz

Love one another, but make not a bond of love....

 

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: 

Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls"

—Kahil Gibran, The Prophet

...things are just what they are.

 

True practice brings us more and more into that plain 

and undramatic space in which things are just 

as they are—just functioning. And that functioning 

cannot come from self-centeredness. 

—Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen