In order to live with integrity, we must stop fragmenting and compartmentalizing our lives. Telling lies at work and then expecting great truths in meditation is nonsensical.

-Sharon Salzberg

no more room for me
the pebble lodged between us
became a boulder

*****

pebble in a pond
rings ricochet and disperse
then stillness returns

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

- Bertrand Russell

uprooted
transplanted to a place
I don’t belong

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how hard it is to
want to belong to someone
who doesn’t want you

More “belonging” haiku at One Deep Breath.

Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark.

- Zen proverb