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Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
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All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.
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In Praise of Mortality
by translated and edited by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
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Contribution #4206
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that is troublesome.
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Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
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For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is to let it rain.
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In a modern society people can live without hope only when kept dazed and out of breath by incessant hustling.
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The True Believer
Page 24
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Contribution #3953
Retire to the center of your being, which is calmness.
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The silence of the spheres is the music of a wedding feast. The more we persist in misunderstanding the phenomena of life, the more we analyze them out into strange finalities and complex purposes of our own, the more we involve ourselves in sadness. But it does not matter much because no despair of ours can alter the reality of things, or stain the joy of the cosmic dance which is always there.
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I am the laughter of the new-born child
On whose soft-breathing sleep an angel smiled.
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Richard Watson Gilder
Contribution #3867
Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
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Contribution #3772
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
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I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
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The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
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The trees, the flowers, the plants grow in silence. The stars, the sun, the moon move in silence. Silence gives us a new perspective.
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You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
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There is no promise of love and light or visions of any kind -- no angels, no devils. Nothing happens: it is absolutely boring. Sometimes you feel silly. One often asks the question, "Who is kidding whom? Am I on to something or not?" You are not on to something. Traveling the path means you get off everything, there is no place to perch. Sit and feel your breath, be with it.
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The Myth of Freedom
Page p. 53
Published by Shambhala
, Boston & London
, 1988
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Contribution #3510
Emptiness is bound to bloom, like hundreds of grasses blossoming.
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Sky Flowers
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Contribution #3462
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
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from Rev. Christopher Chenoweth: "I have said, many times, there are two types of people in this world, vacuums and sprinklers." from -Tirukkural - "What is virtuous conduct? It is never destroying life, for killing leads to every other sin. Of all virtues summed by ancient sages, the foremost are to share one's food and to protect all living creatures." from Swami Vivekananda - "Whenever darkness comes, assert the reality and everything adverse must vanish. For, after all, it is but a dream. Mountain high though the difficulties appear... they are but maya. Fear not - it is banished. Crush it and it vanishes... Go forward. Assert yourself again and again and light must come." from Plato – "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. " from Jimi Hendrix – “Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
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a personal collection of wisdom quotes, compiled from various Scriptures and the Web
Contribution #3366
Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that’s so deeply a part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless.
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But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
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The Glass Bead Game
Page 493
Published by Picador
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Contribution #3168
Responsibility . . . lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness. For some of us, the most effective way to do so is through religious practice. For others it may be non-religious practices. What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take our responsibility for each other and for the natural environment we live in seriously.
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Nobel Lecture, December 11, 1989
Contribution #2926
There is a way that nature speaks, that land speaks. Most of the time we are simply not patient enough, quiet enough, to pay attention to the story.
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Such arts and sciences . . . as are productive of good results, and bring forth their fruit, and are conducive to the wellbeing and tranquillity of men have been, and will remain, acceptable before God.
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Epistle to the Son of the Wolf
P. 19
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Contribution #2668
I hate above all things a cross man. What right has he to murder the sunshine of a day? What right has he to assassinate the Joy of life? When you go home, you ought to go like a ray of light--so that it will, even in the night, burst out of the doors and windows and illuminate the darkness.
Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
You always have the choice to take all things evenly, to hold on to nothing, to receive each irritation as if you had only fifteen minutes to live.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
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Peace comes from within
Do not seek it without
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1463
Cultivate peace first in the garden of your heart by removing the weeds of
selfishness and jealousy,
greed and anger,
pride and ego
Then all will benefit from your peace and harmony
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1455
Until he has unconditional and unbiased love for all beings,
man will not find peace
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1453
When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.
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Heart of a Buddha
by Amita Society
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1435
Perfect wisdom,
Perfect tranquility,
Perfect compassion,
arise from
Our love,
Our sincerity.
Our understanding.
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1359
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.
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Tao Te Ching
page 1, line 1
Version or Translation - translated by Gia-Fu Feng and Jane English
Published by Vintage Books (Random House)
Published in New York, N. Y., United States
Published in 1997 (this edition)
http://this text is widely available in various translations
Contribution #1269
When anger arises, think of the consequences.
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When the senses are stalled, when the mind is at rest, when the intellect wavers not-- that, say the wise, is the highest state. This calm of the senses and the mind has been defined as yoga. One who attains it is freed from delusion.
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Only the just man enjoys peace of mind.
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
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14th Dalai Lama
Viewed on April 13, 2006
Contribution #651
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day
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The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
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Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #435
Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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Paramahansa Yogananda
Viewed on April 10, 2008
Contribution #434
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
What does serenity look like in a person?
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