So, enough with the depression.  I guess that's why in Buddhism there is "non-attachment"  and  awareness.  I have all kinds of quotes from the Dalai Lama that I put up around my house to remind me of what works.  It would be good to read them to myself more often.

When I was visiting in Minneapolis, my daughter and I went to the Global Market.  It is very much like the open air markets in foreign countries, or the farmers markets here.   This is a large building where there are many little stands or stores, and people sell what they have made, or things they have imported from their countries.   I looked over fish sellers, and taco stands, flower stalls, and woven goods from Peru.  The one large stand that really attracted me was the one that had a huge sign that said, "Free Tibet."  Colorful tapestries, quilted pillow covers, and a shiny zafu, or meditation pillow, provided background for the small cloth scrolls with sayings from His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.  Behind the cash register was a large but unobtrusive picture of His Holiness, draped with a scarf.  There was a feeling of a private reverence around the picture.  To the side there was a bookshelf with more books by the Dalai Lama than I had ever seen in one place before.  Words always attract me, and I picked up two books of particular interest,  The Dalai Lama's Little Book of Inner Peace, and Advice On Dying, and Living a Better Life.   Living and dying...always relevant since we will do both, no matter what.  Reading them does transmit the feeling of peace to me.  The Kabbalists say that there is a sacred power is in the actual printed words of the Zohar, whether you understand them or not.  I believe that there is power in the words themselves.  All religions share the power of stories, of words.  So, I rest on these words of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama:

Every Day, think as you wake up,

Today I am fortunate to have woken up,

I am alive, I have a precious human life.

I am not going to waste it,

I am going to  use all my energies to develop myself,

To expand my heart out to others,

To achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings.

I am going to have kind thoughts towards others,

I am not going to get angry, or think badly about others.

I am going to benefit others as much as I can. 

These words are on a scroll and a card.  I don't know the original reference, but I want to remember them, and thought you might like them, too.  Now, off to feed my horses.