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There is a funny story I always tell my students... When I came for the first time to the US, I didn’t speak English (only Spanish) & I saw on every door the word “exit” which in Spanish means Success = Exito. And then I said: "No wonder Americans are winners, every door they take leads to success.” ~smile”
There’s a Chinese proverb that says, “Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts that weaken you & embracing those that strengthen you.” Your mind is like a Ferrari (or your favorite car). It is Awesome!...but if you put sand on the gas tank it won’t run. Don’t put sand (negativity) on your mind. Think positive, encouraging, uplifting thoughts, and the negative will soon evaporate.
Wanna be always happy? Always carry some chocolate with you. ;)
The greatest emotion is love. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest gift is your own life. The greatest pleasure is CHOCOLATE! The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is that there's always something new to learn. The greatest virtue is temperance. The greatest meditation is a peaceful mind. The greatest practice is to be kind. The greatest challenge is to let go. The greatest wisdom is to be in the NOW.
Write this down: My life is full of unlimited possibilities.
If a problem can be solved, there is nothing to worry about. If it can't be solved, well you can always buy chocolate :)
“Stop searching the world for treasure, the real treasure is in yourself.”
Regardless of Sunshine or Rain, Be Thankful for another GREAT day…and treat Life as the ULTIMATE Gift.... Because IT IS :)”
Anyone who has given love will live on in another’s heart.
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Think like a person of Action. Act like a person of Thought.
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There are so many who have power and are so afraid to lose it. Being afraid of losing their power means they have already lost the will to properly wield, transform and transcend it on every level.
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No matter what you believe in or you believe in nothing. Still, you should put your heart at the right place and have a sense of Justice ! It is the human fundamental !!!
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Need to be smart by existing. Need to be wise by living.
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Just for a persistence of faith, many people deplete their entire lives in the everlasting awaited.
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I always believe if everyone does a bit good deed, bit by bit, we can make a harmony world.
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Education may not make a change of your life. It makes you ponder over at least.
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To enjoy the good health. To bring the truth happiness. To care of his own family. To give the peace to all. Firstly, one must discipline and control his own mind. If he can do so, the enlightenment, wisdom and virtue will go to him naturally.
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Thousands upon thousands of lights is inferior to a light of heart.
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No light is brighter than wisdom. Wisdom is the light in the world.
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Sometimes Grace comes in the form of a punch in the face.
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Personal experience.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Yours is only what you always have on you.
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What you pay attention to grows. If your attention is attracted to negative situations and emotions, then they will grow in your awareness.
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creating health
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Neither be so arrogant that people feel it offending to talk with you, nor be so meek that people feel you are weak.
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Even time seems to change its pace at some stages of your life. When you want it should move slow it runs too fast and when you want it should move fast it does not seem to budge.
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I recognize people not by their face but by their gait: their gait never changes.
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Eyes feed on light. They search for light even in the darkest corner.
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Love is like a typical type of grape. Those who do not get it say it sour. Even those who get it say it sour if they spit it.
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Your hand has two sides. Be cautious to open your palm to a person else it will reveal your deeds.
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If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
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From document:(Quotes I live my life by);Journal entry:(6:27 PM 1/18/2011)
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Life is – ‘believing that there is a lot to learn’.
Living is – ‘learning it every day.’
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From document:(Quotes I live my life by);Journal entry:(7:38 PM 1/11/2011)
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A definitive moment whether good or bad is not finite, it stays with you.
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From document:(Quotes I live my life by);Journal entry:(7:38 PM 1/11/2011)
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What you believe in is what you become.
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From document:(Quotes I live my life by);Journal entry:(7:38 PM 1/11/2011)
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" Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
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To be affectionately detached -- that is a power. That is a wisdom. That is a love greater than any emotional love, a love born of understanding.
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http://www.himalayanacademy.com/about/; http://www.facebook.com/KauaiHinduMonastery;
Gurudeva [ Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami --
Founder of Kauai's Hindu Monastery ]
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How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak. ( François Fénelon )
Every man is a damned fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
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The attitude of gratitude keeps the mind renewed.
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Integrated Gospel Poetry
Lawrence E Tucker
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Viewed on October 28, 2011
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Cut your own path and make your life happen
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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.
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" A true born artist doesn't really need any drug (intoxicating substances, liquids...), to get high, to 'see'. If it happens that one does it, is to seem 'normal' as (for), the rest of the crowd. It is more acceptable (matrix rules), to get high on ‘something’, than to naturally doing it on what is perceived by most as 'nothing'..." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~"Un véritable artist n'a vraiment pas besoin de la drogue (substances enivrantes, liquides ...), pour etre ivre/stone, pour 'voir'. S'il arrive de le faire, c'est seulement dans le but de paraître «normal » comme/pour le reste de la foule. Il est plus acceptable (dans les règles de la matrice), d'obtenir l'ivresse imbibe de «quelque chose», que de le faire naturellement sur ce qui est perçu par la plupart comme 'rien' ..." Alexandra Jicol © 2011
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We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
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They taught me that I am not above or beneath anybody- and that I stand to gain as much, or more, from folks who live in society’s shadows as from those on top of the world.
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A Painter/ Artist is nothing more than a medium, a filter, through which 'the truth' strives to be delivered (materialized), to the collective consciousness. Art is certainly not about oneself, ones Ego and personal gratification; a true born artist is caught between understanding the responsibility of its task (its spiritual meaning), and the misconception of those who see it as just one another meaning to produce materialism.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
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You're an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.
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Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever.
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Many that live deserve death, And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
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Lord of the rings
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A fool will act without the right knowledge; the hypocrite acts despite it.
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If you light a lamp for someone else it will also brighten your path
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Not to know what happened before we were born is to remain perpetually a child. For what is the worth of a human life unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors.
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“The more I read, the more I meditate; and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing”
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See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.
A book should serve as the ax for the frozen seas within us.
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"There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning."
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"The very desire to seek spiritual enlightenment is in fact nothing but the grasping tendency of the ego itself, and thus the very search for enlightenment prevents it. The 'perfect practice' is therefore not to search for enlightenment but to inquire into the motive for seeking itself. You obviously seek in order to avoid the present, and yet the present alone holds the answer: to seek forever is to miss the point forever. You always already are enlightened Spirit, and therefore to seek Spirit is simply to deny Spirit."
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“You cannot wake up a man who is pretending to be asleep.”
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“Even as fire finds peace in its resting place without fuel, when thoughts become silence the soul finds peace in its own source. When the mind is silent, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind: the highest End. The mind should be kept in the heart as long as it has not reached the highest End. This is wisdom, and this is liberation.”
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“The secret something that is shared by all effective healing methods is the process of leading the patient to an honest and truthful self-discovery. This self-discovery is required for the initiation and continuation of self-healing; for it is only through self-healing- in contrast to curing- that patients can experience both permanent recovery and spiritual growth…the closer our perception of self approaches, the deeper our capacity for self-healing becomes. When there is a very close correspondence between self-image and truth, our self-healing powers may be virtually unlimited.”
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“Tibetan Buddhists say that a person should never get rid of their negative energy, that negative energy transformed is the energy of enlightenment, and that the only difference between neurosis and wisdom is struggle. If we stop struggling and open up and accept what is, that neurotic energy naturally arises as wisdom, naturally informs us and becomes our teacher. If this is true, why do we struggle so much? We struggle because we’re afraid to die, we’re afraid to see that we are impermanent, that nothing exists forever…but natural wisdom, the other side of neurosis, embodies the truth of transiency.”
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“In the West, a teacher imparts knowledge to a student. In the East, a teacher transmits nothing more or less than his or her Being.”
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“Wisdom can be divided into two: the original wisdom, and the wisdom gained after satori. Original wisdom is the great wisdom of equality, and is inborn; but the wisdom gained after satori is the wonderful wisdom of differentiation.”
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“A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.”
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“Effort is its own reward. We are here to do. And through doing to learn; And through learning to know; And through knowing to experience wonder; And through wonder to attain wisdom; And through wisdom to find simplicity; And through simplicity to give attention; And through attention To see what needs to be done…”
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“Taking responsibility as a co-creator with God presupposes a basic understanding of how creation works.”
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“Everything that from eternity has happened in heaven and earth, the life of God and all the deeds of time simply are the struggles for Spirit to know Itself, to find Itself, be for Itself, and finally unite itself to Itself; it is alienated and divided, but only so as to be able thus to find itself and return to Itself…As existing in an individual form, this liberation is called ‘I’; as developed to its totality, it is free Spirit; as feeling, it is Love; and as enjoyment, it is Blessedness.”
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“Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.”
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“If the Greeks taught us how to reason and Christianity what to believe, it is Zen that teaches us to go beyond logic and not to tarry even when we come up against ‘the things which are not seen’. For the Zen point of view is to find an absolute point where no dualism in whatever form resides. Logic starts from the division of subject and object, and belief distinguishes between what is seen and what is not seen. The Western mode of thinking can never do away with this eternal dilemma, this or that, reason or faith, man and God, etc. With Zen all these are swept aside as something veiling our insight into the nature of life and reality. Zen leads us into a realm of Emptiness or Void where no conceptualism prevails.”
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“The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope.”
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“Things are not what they seem. Nor are they otherwise…Deeds exist, but no doer can be found.”
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“Do not believe in what you have heard; do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations; do not believe anything because it is rumored and spoken of by many; do not believe merely because the written statement of some old sage is produced; do not believe in conjectures; do not believe merely in the authority of your teachers or elders. After observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
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“We must remember that we do not observe nature as it actually exists, but nature exposed to our methods of perception. The theories determine what we can or cannot observe…Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one.”
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“People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to stop from facing their souls.”
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“Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought. The mission of philosophy a priori is to establish the relation of manifested things to their invisible ultimate cause or nature.”
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“Cleverness without wisdom: the most destructive force on Earth.”
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.”
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“Wisdom is knowing how little we know.”
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“To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of the depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.”
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True poetry is a function of awakening. It awakens us, but it must retain the memory of previous dreams.
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“Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take a different road, so long as we reach the same goal.”
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“As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear-headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute ‘solar system’ of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”
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“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
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“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers; people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”
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“Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality.”
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“Much learning does not teach understanding.”
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“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every airbourne particle in its tissue, It is the very atmosphere of the mind; and when the mind is imaginative- much more when it happens to be that of a man of genius- it takes to itself the faintest hints of life, it converts the very pulses of the air into revelations.”
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“The changing wisdom of successive generations discards ideas, questions, facts, demolishes theories. But the artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition- and, therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation- and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity that knits together the loneliness of innumerable hearts: to the solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear, which binds men to each other, which binds together all humanity- the dead to the living and the living to the unborn.”
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“If we stand in the openings of the present moment, with all the length and breadth of our faculties un-selfishly adjusted to what it reveals, we are in the best condition to receive what God is always ready to communicate.”
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“He who neglects the present moment throws away all he has.”
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“I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics…What’s happening is that each year our old flat earth of conventional reason becomes less and less adequate to handle the experiences we have and this is creating wide-spread feelings of topsy-turviness. As a result we’re getting more and more people in irrational areas of thought…occultism, mysticism, drug changes and the like…because they feel an inadequacy in classical reason to handle what they know are real experiences.”
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“Any philosophic nature of Quality, is going to be both false and true precisely because it is a philosophic explanation. The process of philosophic explanation is an analytic process, a process of breaking something down into subjects and predicates. What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word ‘quality’ cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.”
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“’Duty toward self’ is almost an exact translation of the Sanskrit word ‘dharma’, sometimes described as the ‘One’ of the Hindus. Can the ‘dharma’ of the Hindus and the ‘virtue’ of the ancient Greeks be identical? Lightning hits! Quality! Virtue! Dharma! This is what the Sophists were teaching! Not ethical relativism. Not pristine ‘virtue’. But arête. Excellence. Dharma! Before the church of Reason. Before substance. Before form. Before mind and matter. Before dialectic itself. Quality had been absolute. Those first teachers of the Western world were teaching Quality, and the medium they had chosen was that of rhetoric. Arete implies a respect for the wholeness or oneness of life, and a consequent dislike of specialization. It implies a contempt for efficiency…or rather, a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency that exists not in one department of life but in life itself.”
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“Now he began to see for the first time the unbelievable magnitude of what man, when he gained power to understand and rule the world in terms of dialectic truths, had lost. He had built empires of scientific capability to manipulate the phenomena of nature into enormous manifestations of his own dreams of power and wealth…but for this he had exchanged an empire of understanding of equal magnitude: an understanding of what it is to be a part of the world, and not an enemy of it.”
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“To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustains life, not the top.”
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“Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty-thousand page menu, and no food.”
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“The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you being up there.”
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“Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.”
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“To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.”
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“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”
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“There is only one inborn erroneous notion…that we exist in order to be happy…So long as we persist in this inborn error…the world seems to us full of contradictions. For at every step, in great things and small, we are bound to experience that the world and life are certainly not arranged for the purpose of maintaining a happy existence…hence the countenances of almost all elderly persons wear the expression of…disappointment.”
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“Change alone is perpetual, eternal, immortal.”
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“When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest mystery…He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift…There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.”
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“When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise- even in their own field.”
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"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."
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“All Profound things, and emotions of things are preceded and attended by Silence…Silence is the general consecration of the Universe. Silence is the invisible laying on of the Divine Pontiff’s hands upon the world. Silence is at once the most harmless and the most awful thing in all Nature. It speaks of the Reserved Forces of Fate. Silence is the only Voice of our God.”
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“As every man knows, meditation and water are weded forever.”
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“It is hard to be finite upon an infinite subject, and all subjects are infinite.”
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“Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.”
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“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
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“Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking or making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self.”
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“Every atheist is an idolater- unless he is worshipping the true God in his impersonal aspect. The majority of the pious are idolaters.”
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“There are two atheisms of which one is a purification of the notion of God.”
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“Religion, in so far as it is a source of consolation, is a hinderance to true faith; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers are wrong.”
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“Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.”
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"To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you."
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“We are caught in a traffic jam of discursive thought.”
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“The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.”
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“We are sinful not merely because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life.”
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“Patience is the companion to wisdom.”
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“Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement in superfluous things and just study the Way.”
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“Yet you must not cling to the words of the old sages either; they, too, may not be right. Even if you believe them, you should be alert so that, in the event that something superior comes along, you may follow that.”
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“Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.”
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“I knew that good like bad becomes routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.”
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“Where there is clarity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.”
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“We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life’s complexity, but at bottom this is what it is: To continue to be, to be more and more, to develop and to endure. All the force we have, all our energy and clearness of mind serve to intensify themselves in one way or another. We intensify ourselves with new impressions, new sensations, new ideas. We endeavor to take what we do not have and to add it to ourselves. Humanity is the desire for novelty founded upon the fear of death. That is what it is.”
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"Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can."
“An integral approach acknowledges that all views have a degree of truth, but some views are more true than others, more developed, more evolved, more adequate.”
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“Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning.”
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“Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody or everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior structures that can hold belief in the first place, which itself is the product of a long line of inner consciousness development.”
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“Spirit slumbers in nature, awakens in mind, and finally recognizes itself as Spirit in the transpersonal domains.”
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“Prana is implicate to matter but explicate to mind; mind is implicate to prana but explicate to soul; soul is implicate to mind but explicate to spirit; and the spirit is the source and suchness of the entire sequence.”
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“Remarkably enough, the reason you are so disturbed about the facts of life that might make you fearful, sorrowful, angry is that whenever something arises that you might appropriately be angry, fearful, or sorrowful about, you do not feel it completely. You limit your feeling of even these reactions. And you certainly limit your feeling of the circumstances, or the condition, that is arising. You are always exhibiting the evidence of limited feeling, obstructed feeling. If feeling becomes limitless, if you do not contract, then feeling becomes Being Itself- no reaction, no contraction, Feeling without limit. That Feeling goes beyond fear, sorrow, anger, and conventional happiness and loving attitudes. What is It? Love-Bliss. It is the Self-Existing and Self-Radiant Force of Being, without the slightest obstruction. It is Divine Enlightenment.”
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“The exclusion of true esoteric religion has been the business of the State since ancient times. At first this was done via the establishment of the popular idealism of exoteric religious institutions in league with the State. But in modern times the same process is done by the strategic exclusion of conventional religious cultism, mystical idealism, and higher evolutionary Wisdom from the mechanisms of popular culture.”
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“The higher dimension of religion has also always been practiced by a relatively few uncommon individuals. Indeed, it was largely the response to the more conventional or superficial aspects of such extraordinary personalities that produced the great cultic movements of exoteric religion among the masses. But such cultic movements are created by and designed for the instruction and social improvement of ordinary people, not men and women of the more highly evolved or awakened type. Therefore, alongside the development of exoteric religions there have always been secret societies and esoteric groups founded on practice of higher personal, moral, and biologically evolutionary disciplines.”
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“Most perfect self-understanding is the capability to directly (immediately) transcend dilemma, all problems, all seeking.”
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“Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.”
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“We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is our self against ourselves.”
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“Faith is a state of openness or trust…In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.”
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“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So he loses touch with reality, and lives in a world of illusions.”
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“There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love…Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and frustration of trying to love himself. This conviction will not come through condemnations, through hating oneself, through calling self-love bad names in the universe. It comes only in the awareness that one has no self to love.”
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“Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared. If the mind is in pain, the mind is in pain. The thinker has no other form than his thought.”
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“For the greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only loveable because they are changing.”
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“It must be obvious…that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.”
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“Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself.”
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“The fear of anything is the fear of death, and the fear of death is the same as the fear of life...You cannot live fully until you are willing to die fully and you cannot die fully until you are willing to meet the fear of death fully. If you really meet the fear of death, you are at peace. You recognize what cannot die. To meet death is not suicide, nor is it the least bit dangerous. It only seems dangerous. What is dangerous, what is a living suicide, is to live your life in bondage to the belief that you are limited to a body (or a mind, or any-thing). As long as you resist the fact of death and hide from death through the tricks of the mind, you will suffer.”
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“The ultimate metaphysical secret, if we dare to state it so simply, is that there are no boundaries in the universe. Boundaries are illusions, products not of reality but of the way we map and edit reality. And while it is fine to map out the territory, it is fatal to confuse the two.”
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The Four Seals: All compounded things are impermanent. All emotions are pain. All things have no inherent existence. Nirvana is beyond concepts.
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“Anxiety may consist of the loss of psychological or spiritual meaning which is identified with one’s existence as a self, i.e., the threat of meaninglessness.”
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“Only the wounded physician heals.”
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“The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.”
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“There is only consciousness. There is no individual apart from consciousness who is conscious.”
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“When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised.”
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Prayer,in its truest sense,is an attempt to invoke the mightier potential that is already in us,through mental integration.
“And we can’t avoid an inch of our own experience; if we do it causes a blur, a bleep, a puffy unreality. Our job is to wake up to everything, because if we slow down enough, we see that we are everything.”
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“The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence. And Zen suggests that we may be driving toward one or the other on a cosmic scale. Driving toward them because, one way or the other, as madmen or innocents, we are already there. It might be good to open our eyes and see.”
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“Look within, thou art Buddha.”
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“The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell. And therefore, if you want to discover nature’s nakedness, you must destroy its symbols, and the farther you get in the nearer you come to its essence. When you come to the One that gathers all things up into itself, there your soul must stay.”
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“Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.”
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“The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.”
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“Everything the same; everything distinct.”
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“The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.”
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“The Great Way is not difficult for those who have no preferences. When love and hate are both absent everything becomes clear and undisguised. Make the smallest distinction however and heaven and earth are infinitely set apart.”
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“The Way is not difficult; only there must be no wanting or not wanting.”
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“How shall I grasp it? Do not grasp it. That which remains when there is no more grasping is the Self.”
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“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise; seek what they sought.”
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“In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us.”
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“What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.”
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“In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.”
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“Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.”
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“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to anyone who asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God…”
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“Among the great things which are to be found among us, the Being of Nothingness is the greatest.”
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“Get rid of the self and act from the Self!”
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“Zen in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one’s being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.”
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“He who knows others is wise, He who knows himself is enlightened.”
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“The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.”
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“That which transcends both the self and the other, that’s what my teaching is about. Let me prove this to you: While everyone is turned this way to hear me, out back there may be sparrows chirping, human voices calling, or the sighing of the wind. But, without your consciously trying to hear them, each of those sounds comes to you clearly recognized and distinguished. It’s not you doing the hearing, so it’s not a matter of the self. But since no one else does your hearing for you, you couldn’t call it the other! When you listen this way with the Unborn Buddha-mind- you transcend whatever there is.”
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“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
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“Out of clutter, find simplicity. From discord, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
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“Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.”
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“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love, only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.”
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“If you direct your mind toward the bodily movements of your opponent, your mind will be taken by the bodily movements of your opponent. If you direct your mind toward your opponent’s sword, it will be taken by the sword. If you direct your mind toward trying to strike your opponent, it will be taken by waiting to strike. If you direct your mind toward your own sword, it will be taken by your own sword. If you direct your mind toward not being struck, it will be taken by the desire not to be struck. If you direct it toward your opponent’s attitude, it will be taken by his attitude. In short, there is nowhere to direct your mind.”
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“So the thing to do when working on a motorcycle, as in any other task, is to cultivate the peace of mind which does not separate one’s self from one’s surroundings. When that is done successfully, then everything else follows naturally. Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.”
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“And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.”
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“We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God.”
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"When I look inside and see that I am nothing,
that is wisdom.
When I look outside and see that I am everything,
that is love.
Between these two life does turn."
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We humans have been gifted with powers seldom contemplated. One such should become apparent when we consider that all things that exist must first have existed in the mind of God. Then, spend some time each day observing the beauties of nature and you will be......... reading God's mind! Powerful, indeed.
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My mind thinks of many such thoughts to ponder...
Contribution #4821
Faith is the soul's witness to something not yet manifested, achieved or realised, but which yet the Knower within us, even in the absence of all indications, feels to be true or supremely worth following or achieving.
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"Life is too short to have negative friends."
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You cannot care about people's problems more than they do themselves. If you do, then you become the rescuer and they remain the victim.
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"In the School of Life there are always tests, and you can always repeat if you don't pass the first time. However, I have found that the lessons get more expensive the more times you have to redo them. So learn the lesson, while it's cheap!"
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Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One.
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People will try and convince you that there is no God and that there is no life after death, ignore the fools. No one has seen what lies on the other side of the grave and those who have are not alive to tell.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness, with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this.
The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between nations until there is known that true peace, which, as I have often said, is within the souls of men.
"Whatever separates man from man is not of God, but of ego."
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Contribution #4609
When the sun rises, I go to work. When the sun goes down, I take my rest. I dig the well from which I drink. I farm the soil which yields my food. I share creation. Kings can do no more.
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A poster I had in the 1980's
Contribution #4607
Yes…There does exist in the workplace: the corporate ladder to climb, the glass ceiling to break, the small pond from which we must leap, and the box to think outside of in an effort to be successful. But once we realize these are conditions placed upon the mind--a mindset that we personally don’t have to adopt--we are free to pursue our success without encumbrance or hesitation!
"A wise man asks himself the reason for his mistakes, while a fool will ask others."
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Contribution #4564
Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.
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Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise.
Happy is the man that finds wisdom...Wisdom's ways are ways of pleasantness and all her paths are peace.
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Bible
Proverbs
3:13, 17
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Contribution #4497
"We must use that gift wisely, our power to change what we touch. The problem therein; destruction is far too easy whereas in direct contrast, creation takes far too long."
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“In the natural world, weakness is like a crime that’s punishable by death.”
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“In order for one to fully appreciate the subtle nuances of this world, one must first allow oneself to notice they’re there.”
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"When someone tells you that you cannot protect everyone; what they are really saying, is that they're too afraid to protect anyone."
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"Intent and result are two allies whom rarely meet."
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Age of fire
by E.E.Knight
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Contribution #4432
Love wisdom, and she will guard you; cherish her, and she will lift you high; if only you embrace her, she will bring you honor. She will set a garland of grace on your head and bestow on you a crown of glory.
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Bible
Proverbs
4:6-9
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Contribution #4361
Would you like Fox's right to free press put up to a vote and say: "Well, if five states have approved it, let's wait till the other 45 states do."?
I shall go wherever I am asked to participate for freedom.
Birds make great sky circles of their freedom. How do they do that? They fall. And falling, they are given wings"
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Contribution #4279
“When ideology trumps compassion, people turn into monsters.”
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Contribution #4253
the art of being wise is knowing what to overlook
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the art of being wise is knowing what to overlook
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That's a fine line that's a big deal.
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Personal Communication
Contribution #4045
The dream is illusion. The work is life.
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Personal Communication
Contribution #4044
Good judgment comes from experience,
And a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.
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In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.
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. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.
There is no wealth but life.
Water has the capability to splatter: it needs a splash.
It's not who you are, it's what you do that matters
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Todd Cloutier
Contribution #3820
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
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Instead of trying to cover the whole world with leather, put on some sandals.
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Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
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Days Of Healing Days OF Joy
by Earnie Larsen & Carol Larsen Hegarty
Page May 4
Published by Hazelden Meditations
, Center City MN
, 1987
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Contribution #3621
In their voices they found themselves.
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Margaret is my friend and she shared this with our women's circle.
http://margaretcasarez.com/
Contribution #3611
Nothing is lost, nothing is gained. There is nothing.
Be equal to whatever you meet! That is a better way to react to life. It is accomplished simply by meeting everything in understanding, by demanding understanding from within yourself.
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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An error can never become true however many times you repeat it. The truth can never be wrong, even if no one hears it.
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To be affectionately detached—that is a power. That is a wisdom. That is a love greater than any emotional love, a love born of understanding.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
He who angers you conquers you.
Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafarer on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you reach your destiny.
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"Wisdom is possible without omniscience."
I gravitate toward gravitas.
The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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Contribution #3404
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
“In order to be filled with light I have to take the risk of plugging myself in. The more often I dip into the well of inspiration the more likely I am to be inspired. The seed grows in darkness before the tree bursts forth into the light.”
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Personal correspondence
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Contribution #3363
“I'm with you in suggesting that we integrate our spirituality through symbols, myths, dreams and stories, instead of fixed certainties. For me the problem with fixed certainties is that they become so fixed they're no longer certain (if not certainly wrong). I also believe that spirituality is full of mystery and paradox, which gives me an opportunity to engage in play.”
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George Polley
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Contribution #3362
"One who thinks he knows does not know; one who knows he does not know, knows"
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Upanishads - Sacred scriptures of Hinduism
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Contribution #3359
Wisdom is better than might; yet the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heeded. The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouting of a ruler among fools. Wisdom is better than weapons of war.
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Bible
Ecclesiastes
9:16-18
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Contribution #3357
Universal does not mean ultimate.
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Contribution #3353
Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we're not sure that we're most sure.
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The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
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We only die once, but for such a long time
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Contribution #3346
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
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Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know.
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The Sayings of Lao-Tzu
The Sayings of Lao-Tzu
Paradoxes p 45
Version or Translation Lionel Giles translation
Published in Translation 1905
http://www.sacred-texts.com/tao/salt/salt10.htm
Contribution #3210
“Everything that happens to you makes you stronger” isn’t really true. It is what you choose to learn from everything that makes you the person you are today. Every situation presents us with a choice: what will you do with this? Will you learn from this experience, as difficult as it may be, to grow and become a better & stronger person? Or will you assume the victim role, become bitter, and forever blame everyone & everything around you for your life? Everyone is tested; not everyone learns.
3) Jesus said, "If those who lead you say, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty."
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Gnostic Gospels
Gospel of Thomas
Saying 3
Version or Translation Thomas O. Lambdin (Coptic version)
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Contribution #3206
The obstacle is the path.
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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
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"Nothing difficult is ever easy"
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Contribution #3103
It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little.
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The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
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I have lost the consolation of faith / though not the ambition to worship.
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The Writers' Almanac, Garrison Keillor, 1/21/09
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Contribution #2897
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
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I seek great wisdoms, and then find the small ones, unbidden, more profound. Like kindness.
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There are stars who's light only reaches the earth long after they have fallen appart. There are people who's remembrance gives light in this world, long after they have passed away. This light shines in our darkest nights on the road we must follow.
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Contribution #2620
All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles – someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a hundred previous generations. Loved ones who will pass to the next generation their expectations of them, their hopes, and their dreams.
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
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With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
I, Wisdom, am mistress of discretion, the inventor of lucidity of thought. Good advice and sound judgment belong to me.
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Proverbs
8:12, 13
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Contribution #2241
Religion and wisdom help us accept the shortcomings of reality, either with the prospect of bliss after death or with an approach to life that is conducive to serenity.
God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.
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The Voice of the Master
by trans Anthony R. Ferris
Page 62
Published by Citadel Press
, New York
, 1958
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Contribution #2145
A mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension.
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One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night, or deep in sloping meadows, the feeling that every flower and leaf has just uttered something stupendously direct and important, and that we have by a prodigy of imbecility not heard or understood it. There is a certain poetic value in this sense of having missed the full meaning of things. There is beauty, not only in wisdom, but in this dazed and dramatic ignorance.
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Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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The virtues are lost in self-interest as rivers are lost in the sea.
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Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
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It is better to be wise, and not to seem so, than to seem wise, and not be so; yet men, for the most part, desire the contrary.
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
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Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
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The wise man can pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe. But the stupid man will just lay down on some seaweed and roll around in it until he's completely draped in it. Then he'll stand up and go hey, I'm Vine Man.
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There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.
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The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.
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Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.
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Wisdom is found only in truth.
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The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
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Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
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There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
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The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.
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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
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Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
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True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.
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Wisdom is better than weapons of war.
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Ecclesiastes
9:18
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Contribution #1985
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
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Proverbs
24:3-4
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Contribution #1984
They live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them.
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Bhagavad Gita
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Contribution #1983
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
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In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
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Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
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If he is indeed wise he does not bid you enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your own mind.
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It is not the "courage to be" that we must develop as much as the "courage to become." We are responsible for our destiny. The meaning of life is not located in some hidden crevice in the womb of nature but is created by free persons, who are aware that they are responsible for their own futures and have the courage to take this project into their own hands.
Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces our death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.
Antiphon, as another man gets pleasure from a good horse, or a dog, or a bird, I get even more pleasure from good friends. And if I have something good, I teach it to them, and I introduce them to others who will be useful to them with respect to virtue. And together with my friends I go through the treasures of wise men of old which they left behind written in books, and we peruse them. If we see something good, we pick it out and hold it to be a great profit, if we are able to prove useful to one another. --Socrates in Xenophon
Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, because they are afraid to look back...
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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We have only one story. All novels, all poetry, are built on the never-ending contest in ourselves of good and evil.
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Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
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Essays on Education
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Contribution #1717
Great men are they who see that spiritual thought is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.
. . . she (Wisdom) is a breath of the power of God, and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty . . . she is a reflection of eternal light, a spotless mirror of the working of God.
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Wisdom of Solomon
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Contribution #1564
If wisdom is “the realization of that which is of value to ourselves and others” (as philosopher of science Nicholas Maxwell argues), we need to cultivate our wisdom or suffer the catastrophes we’ll otherwise create by foolish uses of our untempered powers. Thus we must now attend concertedly to the values by which we define progress, and we must reach planetary consensus regarding what is best not only for humanity but for all of Earth’s biosphere, for Gaia.
Wisdom: the realization of that which is of value to ourselves and others.
Those who are truly wise will remain unmoved by feelings of happiness and suffering, fame and disgrace, praise and blame, gain and loss.
They will remain calm like the eye of a hurricane.
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Heart of a Buddha
Published by Amitabha Publications
, Temple City, CA
, 2003
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Contribution #1459
Perfect wisdom,
Perfect tranquility,
Perfect compassion,
arise from
Our love,
Our sincerity.
Our understanding.
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Heart of a Buddha
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Contribution #1359
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)
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Contribution #1269
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.
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Wisdom is know what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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The
wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole
world.
He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
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Justice without
wisdom is impossible.
There is a saying that Heaven is internal, humanity external and Virtue comes from the Heavenly.
Know Heaven and humanity's actions, root yourself in Heaven and follow Virture.
Then you can bend, stretch, rush forward or hold back, because you will always return to the core and it will be said you have achieved the supreme.
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The Book of Chuang Tzu
page143
Version or Translation Translated by Martin Palmer with Elizabeth Breuilly
Published by Penguin Arkana Books
Published in New York
Published in 1996
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Contribution #671
Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . .
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Contribution #658
Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.
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Contribution #657
Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame;
The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss.
Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame;
The increase of wisdom is the highest gain.
Therefore, you should train yourselves thus:
"We will grow in the increase of wisdom"
Thus you should train yourselves.
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Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and old, side by side, learning by letting them speak to one another.
To understand reality is not the same as to know about outward events. It is to perceive the essential nature of things. The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.
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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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I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
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It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
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To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.
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The intellectual knowledge of eternal things pertains to wisdom; the rational knowledge of temporal things, to science.
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St. Augustine
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Contribution #453
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
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Contribution #435
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
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Benjamin Franklin
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Contribution #267
Wisdom is often nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
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It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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What does wisdom look like in a person?
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