"A faith that cannot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets." (Arthur C. Clarke)
"Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself." (Osho)
"People tend to assume everyone else should think the same way they do, and this contributes to much human misery." (Keith Cowan)
"The one real object of education is to leave a man in the condition of continually asking questions." (Bishop Mandell Creighton)
"A wise man takes a step at a time; he establishes one foot before he takes up the other: an old place should not be forsaken recklessly." (Sanskrit saying)
“No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.” (Goethe)
“Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.” (Chuang-Tzu)
“In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.” (Rene Descartes)
“He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.” (Goethe)
“We all learn by experience, and your lesson this time is that you should never lose sight of the alternative.” (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Return of Sherlock Holmes”, 1905)
26 November 2017
19 November 2017
Week 2017-46
[#happiness, #love]
"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it." (Bernard Meltzer)
[#illusion, #solitude]
"Man has the illusion that he talks with the entire world from his computer. He is actually alone." (Octavian Paler)
[#happiness, #attachment]
"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem." (Richard Bach)
[#action, #growth]
"If you wish to move mountains tomorrow, you must start by lifting stones today." (African saying)
[#knowledge, #action]
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." (Maya Angelou)
[#mastery, #growth]
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” (Ronald E. Osborn)
[#love, #completeness]
"We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.” (Richard Henry Stoddard)
[#happiness, #timing]
"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.” (William Feather)
[#perception, #learning]
"Some people never learn the art of compromise. Everything is either black or white. They do not recognize, or will not concede, that the equally important color gray is a mixture of black and white.” (Waite Phillips)
[#hardship, #learning]
"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass – it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” (Anon)
"Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it." (Bernard Meltzer)
[#illusion, #solitude]
"Man has the illusion that he talks with the entire world from his computer. He is actually alone." (Octavian Paler)
[#happiness, #attachment]
"If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem." (Richard Bach)
[#action, #growth]
"If you wish to move mountains tomorrow, you must start by lifting stones today." (African saying)
[#knowledge, #action]
"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better." (Maya Angelou)
[#mastery, #growth]
"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” (Ronald E. Osborn)
[#love, #completeness]
"We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.” (Richard Henry Stoddard)
[#happiness, #timing]
"Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.” (William Feather)
[#perception, #learning]
"Some people never learn the art of compromise. Everything is either black or white. They do not recognize, or will not concede, that the equally important color gray is a mixture of black and white.” (Waite Phillips)
[#hardship, #learning]
"Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass – it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” (Anon)
14 November 2017
Week 2017-45
"In the end, we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, we will understand only what we are taught." (Baba Dioum)
"Humanity seeks self-sufficiency, while nature demands relationship. Humanity wants to be invulnerable, but nature reminds it that it is bonded to all other things." (Jeremy Rifkin)
"The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one’s eyes." (George Sand)
"The wind blows over the lake and stirs the surface of the water. Thus, visible effects of the invisible are manifest." (I Ching)
"There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore be content." (Swami Sivananda)
"Happiness can exist only in acceptance." (George Orwell)
"People who pride themselves on their 'complexity' and deride others for being 'simplistic' should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth." (Thomas Sowell)
"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." (Goethe)
"If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn." (Ray Bradbury)
"Humanity seeks self-sufficiency, while nature demands relationship. Humanity wants to be invulnerable, but nature reminds it that it is bonded to all other things." (Jeremy Rifkin)
"The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one’s eyes." (George Sand)
"The wind blows over the lake and stirs the surface of the water. Thus, visible effects of the invisible are manifest." (I Ching)
"There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore be content." (Swami Sivananda)
"Happiness can exist only in acceptance." (George Orwell)
"People who pride themselves on their 'complexity' and deride others for being 'simplistic' should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth." (Thomas Sowell)
"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." (Goethe)
"If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn." (Ray Bradbury)
Week 2017-44
"The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational." (A. N. Wilson)
"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." (G. M. Trevelyan)
"Some people study all their life, and at their death have learned everything but to think." (Demergu Dewar)
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it." (Rabindranath Tagore)
"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas." (George Santayana)
"An educated mind is useless without a focused will, and dangerous without a loving heart." (Winfried Deijmann)
"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it." (Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost." (Khalil Gibran)
"Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck." (Frank Herbert)
"One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret." (Barry Lopez)
"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." (G. M. Trevelyan)
"Some people study all their life, and at their death have learned everything but to think." (Demergu Dewar)
"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it." (Rabindranath Tagore)
"The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas." (George Santayana)
"An educated mind is useless without a focused will, and dangerous without a loving heart." (Winfried Deijmann)
"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it." (Arthur Conan Doyle)
"Between what is said and not meant, and what is meant and not said, most of love is lost." (Khalil Gibran)
"Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck." (Frank Herbert)
"One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret." (Barry Lopez)
28 October 2017
Week 2017-43
"The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do." (Michael Porter)
"The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined." (Joseph Priestley)
"One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is bound to occur with some degree of probability. To put it simply and crudely: Anything that can happen does happen." (Kenneth W Ford)
"To choose a road, to stop habitually and ask whether you have not gone astray, that is the true method.” (Louis Pasteur)
"Responsibility is not doing as we are told, that's obedience. Responsibility is doing what is right.” (Simon Sinek)
"The adventurer is within us, and he contests for our favor with the social man we are obliged to be." (William Bolitho)
"We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object." (Sherry Turkle)
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in." (Alan Alda)
“He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign." (Victor Hugo)
"Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That’s called doing your homework." (Jim Rohn)
"The greater is the circle of light, the greater is the boundary of the darkness by which it is confined." (Joseph Priestley)
"One of the elementary rules of nature is that, in the absence of a law prohibiting an event or phenomenon, it is bound to occur with some degree of probability. To put it simply and crudely: Anything that can happen does happen." (Kenneth W Ford)
"To choose a road, to stop habitually and ask whether you have not gone astray, that is the true method.” (Louis Pasteur)
"Responsibility is not doing as we are told, that's obedience. Responsibility is doing what is right.” (Simon Sinek)
"The adventurer is within us, and he contests for our favor with the social man we are obliged to be." (William Bolitho)
"We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object." (Sherry Turkle)
"Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in." (Alan Alda)
“He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the maze of the most busy life. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidence, chaos will soon reign." (Victor Hugo)
"Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That’s called doing your homework." (Jim Rohn)
21 October 2017
Week 2017-42
"It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?" (Henry David Thoreau)
"I’ve learned through a series of trials and errors that the median space is actually what's missing in our daily walk." (Carlos Wallace)
"There is no such thing as a miracle which violates natural law. There are only occurrences which violate our limited knowledge of natural law." (Saint Augustine)
"The world is a projection of your mind. Good mind, good world. Bad mind, bad world. No mind, no world." (Swami Parthasarathy)
"There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong." (H. L. Mencken)
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality." (Pablo Picasso)
"The future is nothing but a present to organize. You do not have to forecast it, but to allow it." ( Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable." (Mary Oliver)
"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast on nature." (Jacob Bronowski, Universities Quarterly, 1956)
"The hours when we are absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live [...] .These are the only hours that absorb the soul and fill it with beauty. This is real life, and all else is illusion, or mere endurance." ( Richard Jefferies )
"I’ve learned through a series of trials and errors that the median space is actually what's missing in our daily walk." (Carlos Wallace)
"There is no such thing as a miracle which violates natural law. There are only occurrences which violate our limited knowledge of natural law." (Saint Augustine)
"The world is a projection of your mind. Good mind, good world. Bad mind, bad world. No mind, no world." (Swami Parthasarathy)
"There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong." (H. L. Mencken)
"There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality." (Pablo Picasso)
"The future is nothing but a present to organize. You do not have to forecast it, but to allow it." ( Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
"Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable." (Mary Oliver)
"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast on nature." (Jacob Bronowski, Universities Quarterly, 1956)
"The hours when we are absorbed by beauty are the only hours when we really live [...] .These are the only hours that absorb the soul and fill it with beauty. This is real life, and all else is illusion, or mere endurance." ( Richard Jefferies )
14 October 2017
Week 2017-41
"Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time." (Rabindranath Tagore)
"The knowledge which lies behind is our natural help to that which lies before." (Peter M Latham)
"Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because it isn’t needed any more." (Terry Pratchett)
"Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an unlit candle; together they are honey-comb; honey without wax is a noble thing; wax without honey is only fit for burning." (Hakim Sanai)
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." (Philip K. Dick)
"The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give." (Philip K. Dick)
"Search a beautiful heart, not a beautiful face. Beautiful things are not always good, but good things are always beautiful." (Sufi saying)
"Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and being comfortable with not knowing." (Eckhart Tolle)
"A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life." (Winston Churchill)
"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." (Albert Einstein)
"The knowledge which lies behind is our natural help to that which lies before." (Peter M Latham)
"Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn’t believing. It’s where belief stops, because it isn’t needed any more." (Terry Pratchett)
"Knowing what you know, be serene also, like a mountain; and do not be distressed by misfortune. Knowledge without serenity is an unlit candle; together they are honey-comb; honey without wax is a noble thing; wax without honey is only fit for burning." (Hakim Sanai)
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words." (Philip K. Dick)
"The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give." (Philip K. Dick)
"Search a beautiful heart, not a beautiful face. Beautiful things are not always good, but good things are always beautiful." (Sufi saying)
"Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and being comfortable with not knowing." (Eckhart Tolle)
"A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life." (Winston Churchill)
"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." (Albert Einstein)
07 October 2017
Week 2017-40
"It’s good to have an end in mind but in the end what counts is how you travel." (Orna Ross)
"What is laid down, ordered, factual, is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup." (Boris Pasternak)
"The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself." (Michel de Montaigne)
"Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious." (D. T. Suzuki)
"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony." (Thomas Merton)
"Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered." (Orson Scott Card, Xenocide, 1991)
"Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn’t require being unethical." (Tim Ferriss)
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela)
"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence." (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
"Once you realize that the road is the goal, and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple. In itself an ecstasy." (Nisargadatta Maharaj
"What is laid down, ordered, factual, is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup." (Boris Pasternak)
"The finest thing in the world is knowing how to belong to oneself." (Michel de Montaigne)
"Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious." (D. T. Suzuki)
"Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony." (Thomas Merton)
"Human beings do metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered." (Orson Scott Card, Xenocide, 1991)
"Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn’t require being unethical." (Tim Ferriss)
"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela)
"The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence." (Jiddu Krishnamurti)
"Once you realize that the road is the goal, and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple. In itself an ecstasy." (Nisargadatta Maharaj
30 September 2017
Week 2017-39
"[...] the truth is strength that lies in the interior of the warrior: in his heart, his mind and his spirit [.] The heart is essential in helping the intellect to understand the spirit." (Miyamoto Musashi, “Book of Five Rings”)
"There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed." ( Shams Tabrizi )
"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting." (Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist”)
"One is never so strong as when one is broken." (Hazrat Inayat Khan, “Thinking Like The Universe: The Sufi Path Of Awakening”)
"There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess." (Luis Marques, “Book of Orion”)
"I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can." ( Lucille Ball )
"If you go to thinking, take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love. (Carl Jung)
"Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation." (Humberto Maturana)
"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt." (H. L. Mencken)
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." (Helen Keller)
"There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed." ( Shams Tabrizi )
"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting." (Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist”)
"One is never so strong as when one is broken." (Hazrat Inayat Khan, “Thinking Like The Universe: The Sufi Path Of Awakening”)
"There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess." (Luis Marques, “Book of Orion”)
"I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can." ( Lucille Ball )
"If you go to thinking, take your heart with you. If you go to love, take your head with you. Love is empty without thinking, thinking hollow without love. (Carl Jung)
"Only love expands intelligence. To live in love is to accept the other and the conditions of his existence as a source of richness, not as opposition, restriction or limitation." (Humberto Maturana)
"Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt." (H. L. Mencken)
"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." (Helen Keller)
23 September 2017
Week 2017-38
"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." (Eden Phillpotts, “A Shadow Passes”, 1918)
"Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world." (Schopenhauer)
"Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us." (Rainer Maria Rilke)
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart (Helen Keller )
"[Nansen:] The Way is not a matter of knowing or not knowing. Knowing is delusion; not knowing is confusion. When you have really reached the true Way beyond doubt, you will find it as vast and boundless as space. How can it be talked about on the level of right and wrong?" (Mumon Ekai, Mumonkan)
"The most inspiring leaders are not those who do their job, but those who pursue a calling." (Chris Gardner)
"If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams and endeavors to live the life they have imagined, they will meet with a success ‘unexpected in common hours’." (Henry David Thoreau)
"The miracle is that the universe created a part of itself to study the rest of it, and that this part in studying itself finds the rest of the universe in its own natural inner realities." (John C. Lilly)
"Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world." (Schopenhauer)
"Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us." (Rainer Maria Rilke)
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart (Helen Keller )
"[Nansen:] The Way is not a matter of knowing or not knowing. Knowing is delusion; not knowing is confusion. When you have really reached the true Way beyond doubt, you will find it as vast and boundless as space. How can it be talked about on the level of right and wrong?" (Mumon Ekai, Mumonkan)
"The most inspiring leaders are not those who do their job, but those who pursue a calling." (Chris Gardner)
"If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams and endeavors to live the life they have imagined, they will meet with a success ‘unexpected in common hours’." (Henry David Thoreau)
"The miracle is that the universe created a part of itself to study the rest of it, and that this part in studying itself finds the rest of the universe in its own natural inner realities." (John C. Lilly)
16 September 2017
Week 2017-37
[#imagination, #human nature]
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is." (Francis Bacon)
[#life, #duality]
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." (Herman Melville)
[#beliefs, #confidence]
"Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained." (Marie Curie)
[#values, #strength]
"The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course." (Michelangelo)
[#spirituality, #simplicity]
"To realise the constancy and steadiness in your life is to realise the deep nature of the universe. This realisation is not dependent on any transitory internal or external condition, rather it is an expression of one’s own immutable spiritual nature. The only way to attain the Universal Way is to maintain the integral virtues of the constancy, steadiness and simplicity in one’s daily life." (Lao Tzu)
[#knowledge, #values]
"Knowledge is the highest good, truth the supreme value, all the rest is secondary and subordinate." (Aldous Huxley)
[#truth, #goals]
"Approximate truth is the only truth attainable, but at least one must strive for that, and not wade off into arbitrary falsehood." (George Eliot)
[#simplicity, #values]
"The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity." (Ludwig Wittgenstein
[#facts, #wisdom]
"Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere they say nothing or talk nonsense..." (Aldous Huxley)
[#journeys, #spirituality]
"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things." (René Descartes)
[#journeys, #truth]
"Keep the company of those who seek the truth - run from those who have found it." (VÁCLAV HAVEL)
09 September 2017
Week 2017-36
[#love, #life]
"If our heart were large enough to love life in all its detail, we would see that every instant is at once a giver and a plunderer.” (Gaston Bachelard)
[#success, #purpose]
"Two things are necessary for success in life; one is a sense of purpose and the other, a touch of madness." (John Harricharan)
[#life, #geometry]
"Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other." (Victor Hugo, Les Misrables, 1862)
[#thought, #human nature]
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." (William James)
[#journeys, #knowledge]
"A traveler without knowledge is like a bird without wings." (Musharif-Ud-Din)
[#happiness, #attitude]
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances." (Martha Washington)
[#reason, #passion]
"Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining;
And passion, unattended, is a flame that burns its own destruction." ( Khalil Gibran )
[#errors, #self control]
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." (Epictetus)
[#theory, #practice]
"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast." (Leonardo da Vinci)
[#oder, #theory]
“All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal - a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world - two snake pits." (John Gardner, “Grendel”)
"If our heart were large enough to love life in all its detail, we would see that every instant is at once a giver and a plunderer.” (Gaston Bachelard)
[#success, #purpose]
"Two things are necessary for success in life; one is a sense of purpose and the other, a touch of madness." (John Harricharan)
[#life, #geometry]
"Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other." (Victor Hugo, Les Misrables, 1862)
[#thought, #human nature]
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." (William James)
[#journeys, #knowledge]
"A traveler without knowledge is like a bird without wings." (Musharif-Ud-Din)
[#happiness, #attitude]
"The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances." (Martha Washington)
[#reason, #passion]
"Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining;
And passion, unattended, is a flame that burns its own destruction." ( Khalil Gibran )
[#errors, #self control]
"When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger." (Epictetus)
[#theory, #practice]
"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast." (Leonardo da Vinci)
[#oder, #theory]
“All order, I've come to understand, is theoretical, unreal - a harmless, sensible, smiling mask men slide between the two great, dark realities, the self and the world - two snake pits." (John Gardner, “Grendel”)
02 September 2017
Week 2017-35
"Thus all our dignity lies in thought. By thought we must raise ourselves, not by space and time, which we cannot fill." (Blaise Pascal)
"When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and grovelling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home." (Walter Savage Landor)
"Much knowledge of divine things is lost to us through want of faith." (Heraclitus)
"Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes." (Henry Ward Beecher)
"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he proposes to remove." (Samuel Johnson)
"Contemplation is to knowledge, what digestion is to food the way to get life out of it." (Tryon Edwards)
"A consciousness of inward knowledge gives confidence to the outward behavior, which, of all things, is the best to grace a man in his carriage." (Owen Feltham)
"If you look at the world through rose-coloured spectacles, you cannot tell which parts of it really are rosy and which parts just look rosy." (Oliver Penrose, “An Asymmetric World”)
"When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and grovelling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home." (Walter Savage Landor)
"Much knowledge of divine things is lost to us through want of faith." (Heraclitus)
"Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of the score with which they are endowed. A man is educated who knows how to make a tool of every faculty how to open it, how to keep it sharp, and how to apply it to all practical purposes." (Henry Ward Beecher)
"The fountain of content must spring up in the mind; and he who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply the griefs which he proposes to remove." (Samuel Johnson)
"Contemplation is to knowledge, what digestion is to food the way to get life out of it." (Tryon Edwards)
"A consciousness of inward knowledge gives confidence to the outward behavior, which, of all things, is the best to grace a man in his carriage." (Owen Feltham)
"If you look at the world through rose-coloured spectacles, you cannot tell which parts of it really are rosy and which parts just look rosy." (Oliver Penrose, “An Asymmetric World”)
26 August 2017
Week 2017-34
[#understanding, #perception]
"When we want to understand something we cannot just stand outside and observe it. We have to enter deeply into it and be one with it in order to really understand." (Thich Nhat Hanh)
[#education, #growth]
"You have to start where people are, because their growth is going to be from there, not from some abstraction or where you are or someone else is." (Myles Horton)
[#flow, #choice]
"Stop choosing between chaos and order and live at the boundary between them where rest and action move together." (Rainer Maria Rilke)
[#understanding, #pain]
"[...] if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less." (James Baldwin)
[#detachment, #awareness]
"This is what Zen means by being detached - not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water." (Alan Watts)
[#mind, #meditation]
"The mind has power over the body and speech, and therefore any training of body and speech must begin with the mind." (Dalai Lama, “Stages Of Meditation”)
[#change, #patience]
"To master change, nothing is more important than to know the time; to know the time, nothing is more important than to understand inner design; to understand inner design, nothing is more important than open calm." (Li Daoqun, “The Book of Balance and Harmony”)
[#patience, #acceptance]
"Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind." (David G. Allen)
[#action, #impossible]
"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible." (M. C. Escher)
[#self, #love]
"There is in fact no self which needs to be negated. We merely manifest self in terms of our affection and love for people and our willingness to work. When we manifest this way, the self that needs to be negated is already negated." (Kyozan Joshu Sasaki)
[#truth, #human nature]
"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point." (Ezra Pound)
"When we want to understand something we cannot just stand outside and observe it. We have to enter deeply into it and be one with it in order to really understand." (Thich Nhat Hanh)
[#education, #growth]
"You have to start where people are, because their growth is going to be from there, not from some abstraction or where you are or someone else is." (Myles Horton)
[#flow, #choice]
"Stop choosing between chaos and order and live at the boundary between them where rest and action move together." (Rainer Maria Rilke)
[#understanding, #pain]
"[...] if we understood ourselves better, we would damage ourselves less." (James Baldwin)
[#detachment, #awareness]
"This is what Zen means by being detached - not being without emotion or feeling, but being one in whom feeling is not sticky or blocked, and through whom the experiences of the world pass like the reflections of birds flying over water." (Alan Watts)
[#mind, #meditation]
"The mind has power over the body and speech, and therefore any training of body and speech must begin with the mind." (Dalai Lama, “Stages Of Meditation”)
[#change, #patience]
"To master change, nothing is more important than to know the time; to know the time, nothing is more important than to understand inner design; to understand inner design, nothing is more important than open calm." (Li Daoqun, “The Book of Balance and Harmony”)
[#patience, #acceptance]
"Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind." (David G. Allen)
[#action, #impossible]
"Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible." (M. C. Escher)
[#self, #love]
"There is in fact no self which needs to be negated. We merely manifest self in terms of our affection and love for people and our willingness to work. When we manifest this way, the self that needs to be negated is already negated." (Kyozan Joshu Sasaki)
[#truth, #human nature]
"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point." (Ezra Pound)
19 August 2017
Week 2017-33
"The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes." (Soren Kierkegaard)
"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." (Frank Herbert)
"Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less." (Rumi)
"Balance is the all-important factor in a fighter’s attitude or stance. Without balance at all times, he can never be effective." (Bruce Lee, “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”)
"Never fear the shadows. They simply mean that there's a light somewhere nearby." (Ruth E Renkel)
"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." (Martin Buber)
"Don’t search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell." (Shams Tabrizi)
"Non-action is the real action. One hundred acts are not as good as one moment of silence. One hundred exercises are not as good as one moment of standing still." (Wang Xiang Zhai)
"A problem is a question you haven't yet answered to a level that has fulfilled you." (Tony Robbins)
"The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure." (Grayson L. Kirk)
"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic." (Frank Herbert)
"Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less." (Rumi)
"Balance is the all-important factor in a fighter’s attitude or stance. Without balance at all times, he can never be effective." (Bruce Lee, “Tao of Jeet Kune Do”)
"Never fear the shadows. They simply mean that there's a light somewhere nearby." (Ruth E Renkel)
"All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." (Martin Buber)
"Don’t search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell." (Shams Tabrizi)
"Non-action is the real action. One hundred acts are not as good as one moment of silence. One hundred exercises are not as good as one moment of standing still." (Wang Xiang Zhai)
"A problem is a question you haven't yet answered to a level that has fulfilled you." (Tony Robbins)
"The most important function of education at any level is to develop the personality of the individual and the significance of his life to himself and to others. This is the basic architecture of a life; the rest is ornamentation and decoration of the structure." (Grayson L. Kirk)
12 August 2017
Week 2017-32
"A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere." (Charles F. Kettering)
"There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something." (Henry Ford)
"The universe is a fractal. Whatever energy signature we carry will be repeated infinitely, again and again...until we change that vibration." (Paige Bartholomew)
"Unanticipated side effects arise because we too often act as if cause and effect were always closely linked in time and space." (John Sterman)
"Side effects are not a feature of reality but a sign that our understanding of the system is narrow and flawed." (John Sterman)
"Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively." (Dalai Lama)
"Renunciation is not giving up the things of this world, but accepting that they go away." (Shunryu Suzuki-roshi)
"In the age of constant movement, nothing is so urgent as sitting still." (Pico Iyer)
"Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon." (Hui Neng)
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost." (G. K. Chesterton)
"There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something." (Henry Ford)
"The universe is a fractal. Whatever energy signature we carry will be repeated infinitely, again and again...until we change that vibration." (Paige Bartholomew)
"Unanticipated side effects arise because we too often act as if cause and effect were always closely linked in time and space." (John Sterman)
"Side effects are not a feature of reality but a sign that our understanding of the system is narrow and flawed." (John Sterman)
"Know the rules well, so you can break them effectively." (Dalai Lama)
"Renunciation is not giving up the things of this world, but accepting that they go away." (Shunryu Suzuki-roshi)
"In the age of constant movement, nothing is so urgent as sitting still." (Pico Iyer)
"Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon." (Hui Neng)
"The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost." (G. K. Chesterton)
05 August 2017
Week 2017-31
"As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weakens and defeats you." (Morihei Ueshiba, "The Art of Peace", 1991)
"The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances." (Atisha)
"The root of compassion is compassion for oneself." (Pema Chodron)
"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness." (Chuang Tzu)
"Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots." (Rumi)
"With love you don’t bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face." (Rumi)
"Your knowledge should improve your heart and purge your ego." (Imam Al-Ghazali)
"When the heart is at peace for and against are forgotten." (Chuang Tzu)
"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity." (Pema Chodron)
"[...] you cannot go on ‘explaining away’ forever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to ‘see through’ first principles. If you see through everything then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see." (Clive S Lewis, "The Abolition of Man", 1943)
"The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances." (Atisha)
"The root of compassion is compassion for oneself." (Pema Chodron)
"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness." (Chuang Tzu)
"Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots." (Rumi)
"With love you don’t bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face." (Rumi)
"Your knowledge should improve your heart and purge your ego." (Imam Al-Ghazali)
"When the heart is at peace for and against are forgotten." (Chuang Tzu)
"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It’s a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity." (Pema Chodron)
"[...] you cannot go on ‘explaining away’ forever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on ‘seeing through’ things forever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to ‘see through’ first principles. If you see through everything then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To ‘see through’ all things is the same as not to see." (Clive S Lewis, "The Abolition of Man", 1943)
29 July 2017
Week 2017-30
"Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." (Roald Dahl)
"There is nothing in this world which does not speak. Every thing and every being is continually calling out its nature, its character, its secret; the more the inner sense is open, the more capable it becomes of hearing the voice of all things." (Inayat Khan)
"Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot.
Seek the path that demands your whole being." (Rumi)
"When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence." (Sri Aurobindo)
"Bringing joy to one heart with love is better than one thousand repetitive prayer recitings." (Sufi saying)
"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." (Albert Camus)
"Let your mind wander in the pure and simple.
Be one with the infinite.
Let all things take their course." (Zhuangzi)
"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them." (Constantin Brâncuși)
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved." (George MacDonald)
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anaïs Nin)
"There is nothing in this world which does not speak. Every thing and every being is continually calling out its nature, its character, its secret; the more the inner sense is open, the more capable it becomes of hearing the voice of all things." (Inayat Khan)
"Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot.
Seek the path that demands your whole being." (Rumi)
"When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence." (Sri Aurobindo)
"Bringing joy to one heart with love is better than one thousand repetitive prayer recitings." (Sufi saying)
"In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." (Albert Camus)
"Let your mind wander in the pure and simple.
Be one with the infinite.
Let all things take their course." (Zhuangzi)
"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them." (Constantin Brâncuși)
"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved." (George MacDonald)
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anaïs Nin)
22 July 2017
Week 2017-29
"If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless." (Rumi)
"This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness." (Mary Oliver)
"A snowflake never falls in the wrong place." (Zen saying)
"It is useless to fight against people’s rigid ways, or to argue against their irrational concepts. You will only waste time and make yourself rigid in the process. The best strategy is to simply accept rigidity in others, outwardly displaying deference to their need for order. On your own, however, you must work to maintain your open spirit, letting go of bad habits and deliberately cultivating new ideas." (Robert Greene)
"In this world which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way — and if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet." (Bertrand Russell)
"Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there - in the imperfection is perfect reality." (Shunryū Suzuki)
"We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless." (Rumi)
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." (Khalil Gibran)
"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world." (Marianne Williamson)
"We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding." (Edward Teller)
"This is the first, wildest, and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness." (Mary Oliver)
"A snowflake never falls in the wrong place." (Zen saying)
"It is useless to fight against people’s rigid ways, or to argue against their irrational concepts. You will only waste time and make yourself rigid in the process. The best strategy is to simply accept rigidity in others, outwardly displaying deference to their need for order. On your own, however, you must work to maintain your open spirit, letting go of bad habits and deliberately cultivating new ideas." (Robert Greene)
"In this world which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like. We can only live together in that way — and if we are to live together and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet." (Bertrand Russell)
"Nothing we see or hear is perfect. But right there - in the imperfection is perfect reality." (Shunryū Suzuki)
"We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless." (Rumi)
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." (Khalil Gibran)
"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world." (Marianne Williamson)
"We must learn to live with contradictions, because they lead to deeper and more effective understanding." (Edward Teller)
15 July 2017
Week 2017-28
"Realizing that our inability to control life is not the same as having no way to navigate it, leads to freedom and liberation. Just because I can't control the sea doesn't mean I can't learn how to swim in it." (Rami Shapiro)
"With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love." (Rumi)
"What worries you, masters you." (John Locke)
"Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." ( Nathaniel Hawthorne )
"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears." (Michel de Montaigne)
"We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand." (Eric Hoffer)
"Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace." ( Karl Kraus)
"If you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change the way you think about it." (Mary Engelbreit)
"Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow." (Tony Schwartz)
"To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of the idea of what it means to be truly happy or content." (Confucius)
"With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love." (Rumi)
"What worries you, masters you." (John Locke)
"Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." ( Nathaniel Hawthorne )
"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears." (Michel de Montaigne)
"We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand." (Eric Hoffer)
"Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace." ( Karl Kraus)
"If you don't like something, change it.
If you can't change it, change the way you think about it." (Mary Engelbreit)
"Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow." (Tony Schwartz)
"To be truly happy and contented, you must let go of the idea of what it means to be truly happy or content." (Confucius)
08 July 2017
Week 2017-27
"Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else." (Shunryū Suzuki)
"Think simple as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles." (Frank L. Wright)
"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly." (Edward Albee)
"Fear is a distraction from ‘what is', from the present actual moment, preventing us from existing, from being what we are." (Vanda Scaravelli)
"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"The power of imagination makes us infinite." (John Muir)
"Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things." (Virgil)
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." (Lao Tzu)
"The more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves" (Roald Dahl)
"The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can’t remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts." (Shams Tabrizi)
"Think simple as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles." (Frank L. Wright)
"Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly." (Edward Albee)
"Fear is a distraction from ‘what is', from the present actual moment, preventing us from existing, from being what we are." (Vanda Scaravelli)
"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets." (Leonardo da Vinci)
"The power of imagination makes us infinite." (John Muir)
"Happy is he who gets to know the reasons for things." (Virgil)
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." (Lao Tzu)
"The more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves" (Roald Dahl)
"The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can’t remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts." (Shams Tabrizi)
01 July 2017
Week 2017-26
"People who inspire others are those who see invisible bridges at the end of dead-end streets" (Charles Swindoll)
"As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself." (Shunryu Suzuki-roshi)
"The limits of my language means the limits of my world." (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
"We can control our lives by controlling our perceptions." (Bruce H. Lipton)
"Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows." (Nisargadatta Maharaj)
"Only great minds are capable of estimating the magnitude of little things." (Rayon)
"The wit we long for spoils the wit we have." (Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset)
"A miracle does not happen in contradiction to nature, but in contradiction to that which is known to us of nature." (St Augustine)
"To be empty means to be empty of ego, not in the sense that one functions as a vegetable or a wild animal, but in the sense that one ceases to gauge the events, the persons and the things of one's environment in terms of 'I' or 'me' or 'mine'". (Hsu Yun)
"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open." (Shakti Gawain)
"As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself." (Shunryu Suzuki-roshi)
"The limits of my language means the limits of my world." (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
"We can control our lives by controlling our perceptions." (Bruce H. Lipton)
"Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows." (Nisargadatta Maharaj)
"Only great minds are capable of estimating the magnitude of little things." (Rayon)
"The wit we long for spoils the wit we have." (Jean-Baptiste-Louis Gresset)
"A miracle does not happen in contradiction to nature, but in contradiction to that which is known to us of nature." (St Augustine)
"To be empty means to be empty of ego, not in the sense that one functions as a vegetable or a wild animal, but in the sense that one ceases to gauge the events, the persons and the things of one's environment in terms of 'I' or 'me' or 'mine'". (Hsu Yun)
"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open." (Shakti Gawain)
24 June 2017
Week 2017-25
[#discovery, #models]
"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open." (Shakti Gawain)
[#complexity, #simplicity]
"Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves." (Edwin Way Teale)
[#learning, #perfection]
"Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning." (Edsger W. Dijkstra)
[#complexity, #simplicity]
"Great truths are simple because they are of universal application. Truth itself is always simple. Complexity is due to man's ignorance." (Swami Vivekananda)
[#gaia]
"Constantly regard the universe as a single living being, having one substance and one soul; observe how all creation relates to the cosmic consciousness of this one living being. Observe too how everything moves with its impulse, working together to create all events, continuously spinning its delicate thread in the amazing complexity of its web." (Marcus Aurelius)
[#peacefulness, #change]
"Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others, but by simply accepting them as they are. True acceptance is always without demands and expectations." (Dr. Gerald Jampolsky, "Love Is Letting Go of Fear", 1979)
[#illness, #human nature]
"Illnesses do not come upon us out of the blue. They are developed from small daily sins against Nature. When enough sins have accumulated, illnesses will suddenly appear." (Hippocrates)
[#self control, #strength]
"You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." (Marcus Aurelius)
[#acceptance]
"When faced with any difficulty of life, resolve it by following these four steps: face it, accept it, deal with it and let it go." (Sheng Yen)
[#learning #acceptance]
"Reading doesn’t mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read." (Amit Kalantri)
17 June 2017
Week 2017-24
"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic." (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
"Only in the eyes of love you can find infinity." (Sorin Cerin, “Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom”)
"If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea." (Richard Hofstadter)
"The problem with introspection is that it has no end." (Philip K. Dick)
"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" (Khalil Gibran)
"If you live the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion." (Lin-chi)
"You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty superior to reason, by entering into a state in which you are your finite self no longer." (Plotinus, "Enneads")
"The essence of all things is one and the same, perfectly calm and tranquil, and shows no sign of 'becoming'; ignorance, however, is in its blindness and delusion oblivious of Enlightenment, and, on that account, cannot recognize truthfully all those conditions, differences, and activities which characterize the phenomena of the Universe." (Ashvaghosha, "The Awakening of Faith")
"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter." (Sai Baba)
"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos." (Will Durant)
"Only in the eyes of love you can find infinity." (Sorin Cerin, “Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom”)
"If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas, it is having an excess of commitment to some special and constricting idea." (Richard Hofstadter)
"The problem with introspection is that it has no end." (Philip K. Dick)
"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" (Khalil Gibran)
"If you live the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbing in the ocean of delusion." (Lin-chi)
"You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty superior to reason, by entering into a state in which you are your finite self no longer." (Plotinus, "Enneads")
"The essence of all things is one and the same, perfectly calm and tranquil, and shows no sign of 'becoming'; ignorance, however, is in its blindness and delusion oblivious of Enlightenment, and, on that account, cannot recognize truthfully all those conditions, differences, and activities which characterize the phenomena of the Universe." (Ashvaghosha, "The Awakening of Faith")
"All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter." (Sai Baba)
"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos." (Will Durant)
10 June 2017
Week 2017-23
[#reality, #illusion]
"The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it." (Chuck Palahniuk)
[#meaning]
"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human." (Viktor E. Frankl)
[#wisdom, #doubt]
"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth." (Pierre Abélard)
[#knowledge, #wisdom]
"Don't be conceited about your own knowledge. Take advice from the ignorant as well as the wise, since there is no single person who embodies perfection nor any craftsman who has reached the limits of excellence. The perfect word is as rare as an emerald, yet it may be found among the maidservants working at the millstone." (Ptah-hotep)
[#limits, #belief]
"When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw." (Nelson Mandela)
[#knowledge, #mystery]
"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge." (Kahlil Gibran)
[#love, #identity]
"The things that we love tell us what we are." (Thomas Aquinas)
[#quest, #learning]
"I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my soul." (Rumi)
[#beauty, #fragility]
"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed." (Ernest Hemingway)
[#patience, #trust]
"Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn." (Rumi)
[#understanding, #discrimination]
"Those who judge will never understand, and those who understand will never judge." (Wilson Kanadi)
03 June 2017
Week 2017-22
"Cleansing the mind does not require water. Practicing generosity does not require wealth." (Sam van Schaik, “Tibetan Zen”)
"The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment." (Lauren Kate Fallen)
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." (Rumi)
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." (Eleanor Roosevelt)
"Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time." (Hebrew proverb)
"Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul." (Thomas Moore)
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for." (Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird")
"A person who becomes fatigued when unhappy is useless. Meeting with people should be a matter of quickly grasping their temperament and reacting appropriately […] This is a function of both the heart and words." (Miyamoto Musashi & Yamamoto Tsunetomo, "The Samurai Series: The Book of Five Rings, Bushido & Hagakure")
"The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think." (Harper Lee)
"No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die. This is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life." (Shams Tabrizi)
"The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment." (Lauren Kate Fallen)
"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy." (Rumi)
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience." (Eleanor Roosevelt)
"Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time." (Hebrew proverb)
"Silence is not an absence of sound but rather a shifting of attention toward sounds that speak to the soul." (Thomas Moore)
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for." (Harper Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird")
"A person who becomes fatigued when unhappy is useless. Meeting with people should be a matter of quickly grasping their temperament and reacting appropriately […] This is a function of both the heart and words." (Miyamoto Musashi & Yamamoto Tsunetomo, "The Samurai Series: The Book of Five Rings, Bushido & Hagakure")
"The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think." (Harper Lee)
"No matter what people call you, you are just who you are. Keep to this truth. You must ask yourself how is it you want to live your life. We live and we die. This is the truth that we can only face alone. No one can help us. So consider carefully, what prevents you from living the way you want to live your life." (Shams Tabrizi)
27 May 2017
Week 2017-21
"We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." (Ayn Rand)
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." (Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird)
"When you step beyond your own gate, you face a million enemies." (Gichin Funakoshi)
"When you resist the flow of life, what you are actually resisting is your own inner nature, for everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are. This isn’t a mystical statement; it is part of the apparatus of perception. To perceive is to grasp the meaning of something." (Deepak Chopra)
"Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things." (Dōgen)
"What we perceive and what we understand depends upon what we are." (Aldous Huxley)
"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it." (John Locke)
"In the life cycle of every conflict, there is a point when it’s large enough to be recognized, but small enough to be resolved." (Daniel Dana)
"Love is a natural kind of meditation. And meditation is a supernatural kind of love." (Osho)
"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about." (Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore)
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it." (Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird)
"When you step beyond your own gate, you face a million enemies." (Gichin Funakoshi)
"When you resist the flow of life, what you are actually resisting is your own inner nature, for everything that happens to us is a reflection of who we are. This isn’t a mystical statement; it is part of the apparatus of perception. To perceive is to grasp the meaning of something." (Deepak Chopra)
"Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things." (Dōgen)
"What we perceive and what we understand depends upon what we are." (Aldous Huxley)
"The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it." (John Locke)
"In the life cycle of every conflict, there is a point when it’s large enough to be recognized, but small enough to be resolved." (Daniel Dana)
"Love is a natural kind of meditation. And meditation is a supernatural kind of love." (Osho)
"When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about." (Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore)
20 May 2017
Week 2017-20
[#budo, #perception]
"The true value of Budo is to train the mind to see clearly and maintain spiritual strength." (Toshitsugu Takamatsu)
[#practice, #method]
"Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream in its course. It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you." (Master Sheng Yen)
[#happiness]
"Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside." (Ramana Maharshi)
[#force, #fight]
"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe." (John Milton)
[#patience, #expectations]
"The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter." (Paulo Coelho)
[#illusion, #wisdom]
"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." (Ludwig Börne)
[#knowledge]
"All our knowledge is ourselves, to know." (Alexander Pope)
[#knowledge, #learning]
"Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge." (Philip Sidney)
[#certainty, #knowledge]
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little." (Agnes de Mille)
[#mind, #attachment]
"What do you hang on the walls of your mind?" (Eve Arnold)
"The true value of Budo is to train the mind to see clearly and maintain spiritual strength." (Toshitsugu Takamatsu)
[#practice, #method]
"Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream in its course. It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you." (Master Sheng Yen)
[#happiness]
"Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside." (Ramana Maharshi)
[#force, #fight]
"Who overcomes by force, hath overcome but half his foe." (John Milton)
[#patience, #expectations]
"The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter." (Paulo Coelho)
[#illusion, #wisdom]
"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." (Ludwig Börne)
[#knowledge]
"All our knowledge is ourselves, to know." (Alexander Pope)
[#knowledge, #learning]
"Each excellent thing, once learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge." (Philip Sidney)
[#certainty, #knowledge]
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little." (Agnes de Mille)
[#mind, #attachment]
"What do you hang on the walls of your mind?" (Eve Arnold)
13 May 2017
Week 2017-19
"Truth is not to be found outside. No teacher, no scripture can give it to you. It is inside you and if you wish to attain it, seek your own company. Be with yourself." (Osho)
"When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power." (Alston Chase)
"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection." (Bhagavad Gita)
"Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance." (Osho)
"If you wish to be a warrior prepare to get broken, if you wish to be an explorer prepare to get lost, and if you wish to be a lover prepare to be both." (Anon)
"Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation." (Sid Taylor)
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (James Boswell)
"There are gaps between the fingers; there are gaps between the senses. In these gaps is the darkness which hides the connection between things." (Idris Parry)
"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt." (John Muir)
"Seeking means to have a goal; but finding means to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose." (Hermann Hesse)
"When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is reduced to the quest for power." (Alston Chase)
"It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection." (Bhagavad Gita)
"Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That's its balance." (Osho)
"If you wish to be a warrior prepare to get broken, if you wish to be an explorer prepare to get lost, and if you wish to be a lover prepare to be both." (Anon)
"Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation." (Sid Taylor)
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (James Boswell)
"There are gaps between the fingers; there are gaps between the senses. In these gaps is the darkness which hides the connection between things." (Idris Parry)
"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt." (John Muir)
"Seeking means to have a goal; but finding means to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. You, O worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose." (Hermann Hesse)
06 May 2017
Week 2017-18
"To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not." (Akhenaton)
"The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." (Herbert Agar)
"An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance." (Richard Hugo, "Triggering Town")
"We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are." (Gene Roddenberry)
"Belief can convert the mundane into the miraculous." (Charles F Glassman)
"Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective." ( Hunter S. Thompson )
"Staring at the light of another blinds the view of our own." (Charles F Glassman)
"Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides." (André Malraux)
"I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves." (Louise L. Hay)
"The truth which makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." (Herbert Agar)
"An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance." (Richard Hugo, "Triggering Town")
"We are on a journey to keep an appointment with whatever we are." (Gene Roddenberry)
"Belief can convert the mundane into the miraculous." (Charles F Glassman)
"Every man is the sum total of his reactions to experience. As your experiences differ and multiply, you become a different man, and hence your perspective changes. This goes on and on. Every reaction is a learning process; every significant experience alters your perspective." ( Hunter S. Thompson )
"Staring at the light of another blinds the view of our own." (Charles F Glassman)
"Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides." (André Malraux)
"I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves." (Louise L. Hay)
29 April 2017
Week 2017-17
"Using someone else’s ruler to measure your self-worth will always leave you short." (Charles F Glassman)
"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free.
Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.
This is the ultimate." (Chuang Tzu)
"When meditation is mastered,
the mind is unwavering,
like the flame of a lamp in a windless place." (Bhagavad Gita)
"What cannot be known is more revealing than what can." (John D. Barrow, "Impossibility", 1998)
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people." (Carl Jung)
"All great things have their origin in that which is small." (Lao Tzu)
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. (Henry David Thoreau)
"Exploring your imagination is the first step to understanding your heart." (Anon)
"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." (Voltaire)
"It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable—he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated." (Leo Tolstoy)
"Flow with whatever is happening and let your mind be free.
Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing.
This is the ultimate." (Chuang Tzu)
"When meditation is mastered,
the mind is unwavering,
like the flame of a lamp in a windless place." (Bhagavad Gita)
"What cannot be known is more revealing than what can." (John D. Barrow, "Impossibility", 1998)
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people." (Carl Jung)
"All great things have their origin in that which is small." (Lao Tzu)
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. (Henry David Thoreau)
"Exploring your imagination is the first step to understanding your heart." (Anon)
"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." (Voltaire)
"It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable—he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated." (Leo Tolstoy)
22 April 2017
Week 2017-16
"Love is not always fireworks and magic. Often we’ll experience it in the form of patience, acceptance, loyalty, and mutual respect." (Charles F Glassman)
"To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence." (Cesar Chavez)
"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death." (James F. Byrnes)
"The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give." (Philip K. Dick)
"Men are not moved by things, but the views they take of them." (Epitectus)
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." (Henri Bergson)
"Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding." (Marcus Aurelius)
"Knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity." (Imam al-Ghazali)
"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will." (W. Clement Stone)
"Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it." (Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib)
"To make a great dream come true, the first requirement is a great capacity to dream; the second is persistence." (Cesar Chavez)
"Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death." (James F. Byrnes)
"The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give." (Philip K. Dick)
"Men are not moved by things, but the views they take of them." (Epitectus)
"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly." (Henri Bergson)
"Keep constantly in mind in how many things you yourself have witnessed changes already. The universe is change, life is understanding." (Marcus Aurelius)
"Knowledge without action is insanity and action without knowledge is vanity." (Imam al-Ghazali)
"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will." (W. Clement Stone)
"Nothing hurts a good soul and a kind heart more than to live amongst people who cannot understand it." (Hazrat Ali ibn Abi Talib)
15 April 2017
Week 2017-15
"If we do not believe within ourselves this deeply rooted feeling that there is something higher than ourselves, we shall never find the strength to evolve into something higher." (Rudolf Steiner)
"We come to love not by finding the perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." (Sam Keen)
"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." (Blaise Pascal)
"Student: Master tell me, is death the end or is it the beginning?
Master: Tell me, is the water in the river which flows, new or old?" (Zen story)
"True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even the smallest, least significant thought, word and action has real consequences throughout the universe." (Sogyal Rinpoche)
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." (Friedrich Nietzsche)
"Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light." (Norman B. Rice)
"Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." (Umberto Eco)
"We come to love not by finding the perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly." (Sam Keen)
"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." (Blaise Pascal)
"Student: Master tell me, is death the end or is it the beginning?
Master: Tell me, is the water in the river which flows, new or old?" (Zen story)
"True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even the smallest, least significant thought, word and action has real consequences throughout the universe." (Sogyal Rinpoche)
"He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how." (Friedrich Nietzsche)
"Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light." (Norman B. Rice)
"Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men." (Benjamin Disraeli)
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." (Umberto Eco)
08 April 2017
Week 2017-14
[#duality, #light]
"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures." (James Thurber)
[#wisdom, #thought]
"Thinking and doing, doing and thinking, these are the sum of all wisdom. Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out. Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road." (Goethe)
[#mastery, #strength]
"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." (John Keats)
[#character, #mastery]
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." (Henry David Thoreau)
[#belief]
"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." (Sydney J. Harris)
[#feelings, #thought]
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." (Jean de La Bruyère)
[#patience]
"To endure the unendurable is true endurance." (Japanese saying)
[#simplicity]
"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
[#action, #love]
"The grand essentials of life are something to do, something to love, something to hope for." (Thomas Chalmers)
[#knowledge]
"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little." (Epicurus)
"There are two kinds of light - the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures." (James Thurber)
[#wisdom, #thought]
"Thinking and doing, doing and thinking, these are the sum of all wisdom. Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out. Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road." (Goethe)
[#mastery, #strength]
"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts." (John Keats)
[#character, #mastery]
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." (Henry David Thoreau)
[#belief]
"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." (Sydney J. Harris)
[#feelings, #thought]
"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." (Jean de La Bruyère)
[#patience]
"To endure the unendurable is true endurance." (Japanese saying)
[#simplicity]
"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done." (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
[#action, #love]
"The grand essentials of life are something to do, something to love, something to hope for." (Thomas Chalmers)
[#knowledge]
"Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little." (Epicurus)
01 April 2017
Week 2017-13
[#success, #learning]
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." (Horace Walpole)
[#action, #chance]
"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great." (Orison Swett Marden)
[#strength, #will]
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." (Gandhi)
[#errors]
"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes." (Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
[#limits, #chance]
"It is by fighting the limitations, temptations, and failures of the world that we reach our highest possibilities." (Helen Keller)
[#truth, #quest]
"Don’t keep searching for truth. Just let go of your opinions." (Seng Ts'an)
[#acceptance]
"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us." (Friedrich Nietzsche)
[#altruism, #meaning]
"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
[#limits, #human nature]
"The greatest enemy of the individual is the individual himself." (Saul Alinsky)
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." (Horace Walpole)
[#action, #chance]
"Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great." (Orison Swett Marden)
[#strength, #will]
"Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will." (Gandhi)
[#errors]
"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes." (Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
[#limits, #chance]
"It is by fighting the limitations, temptations, and failures of the world that we reach our highest possibilities." (Helen Keller)
[#truth, #quest]
"Don’t keep searching for truth. Just let go of your opinions." (Seng Ts'an)
[#acceptance]
"We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us." (Friedrich Nietzsche)
[#altruism, #meaning]
"Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
[#limits, #human nature]
"The greatest enemy of the individual is the individual himself." (Saul Alinsky)
25 March 2017
Week 2017-12
[#opportunity]
"[...] if we are to have any future, we must create that future ourselves." (Beatrice Bruteau)
[#love, #altruism]
"People who exude love are in every way like rivers - they stream. And when they collect possessions and things that they like, they are apt to give them to other people. Did you ever notice that when you give things away, you keep getting more? That, as you create a vacuum, more flows in?" (Alan Watts)
[#control, #change]
"Nature is not a force over which we must triumph, but the medium of our transformation." (Marilyn Ferguson)
[#suffering, #fear]
"To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none." (Francis Bacon)
[#perspective]
"Judge people from where they stand, not from where you stand." (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
[#reality, #change]
"To change our realities we have to change our myths." (Riane Eisler)
[#human nature, #control]
"The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature." (Edward Abbey, "Beyond the Wall”, 1984)
[#quest]
"The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it." (Seneca the Younger)
[#acceptance, #certainty]
"Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow." (Tony Schwartz)
[#limits, #knowledge]
"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning." (Claude Bernard)
"[...] if we are to have any future, we must create that future ourselves." (Beatrice Bruteau)
[#love, #altruism]
"People who exude love are in every way like rivers - they stream. And when they collect possessions and things that they like, they are apt to give them to other people. Did you ever notice that when you give things away, you keep getting more? That, as you create a vacuum, more flows in?" (Alan Watts)
[#control, #change]
"Nature is not a force over which we must triumph, but the medium of our transformation." (Marilyn Ferguson)
[#suffering, #fear]
"To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none." (Francis Bacon)
[#perspective]
"Judge people from where they stand, not from where you stand." (H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
[#reality, #change]
"To change our realities we have to change our myths." (Riane Eisler)
[#human nature, #control]
"The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature." (Edward Abbey, "Beyond the Wall”, 1984)
[#quest]
"The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it." (Seneca the Younger)
[#acceptance, #certainty]
"Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow." (Tony Schwartz)
[#limits, #knowledge]
"It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning." (Claude Bernard)
18 March 2017
Week 2017-11
[#growth, #reality]
"Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven... Build, therefore, your own world." (Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature”, 1836)
[#happiness, #quest]
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost." (H. Jackson Browne)
[#knowledge, #chaos]
"Don't worry that your life is turning upside down.
How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?" (Rumi)
[#confidence, #knowledge]
"Confidence is not about being always right, but always knowing what to do when things go wrong." (Anon)
[#learning]
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” (Thomas H. Huxley)
[#education]
"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves." (Abbe Dimnet, "Art of Thinking", 1928)
[#love, #wisdom]
"Remember, one can only know what one is capable of loving. There is no wisdom without love." (Shams Tabrizi)
[#learning, #truth]
"The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue." (Antisthenes)
[#education, #inquiry]
"The journey for an education starts with a childhood question." (David L Finn)
[#learning, #perception]
"Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we re-perceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life. There is within each of us a deep hunger for this type of learning." (Peter Senge)
"Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven... Build, therefore, your own world." (Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nature”, 1836)
[#happiness, #quest]
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost." (H. Jackson Browne)
[#knowledge, #chaos]
"Don't worry that your life is turning upside down.
How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?" (Rumi)
[#confidence, #knowledge]
"Confidence is not about being always right, but always knowing what to do when things go wrong." (Anon)
[#learning]
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.” (Thomas H. Huxley)
[#education]
"Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves." (Abbe Dimnet, "Art of Thinking", 1928)
[#love, #wisdom]
"Remember, one can only know what one is capable of loving. There is no wisdom without love." (Shams Tabrizi)
[#learning, #truth]
"The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue." (Antisthenes)
[#education, #inquiry]
"The journey for an education starts with a childhood question." (David L Finn)
[#learning, #perception]
"Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Through learning we re-perceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life. There is within each of us a deep hunger for this type of learning." (Peter Senge)
11 March 2017
Week 2017-10
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things." (Winston Churchill)
"Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest." (Auguste Rodin)
"The most dangerous of our prejudices reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act." (Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
"[…] there are no backwaters. There is only one river, and we are all in it." (Scott Russell Sanders, “Writing from the Center”, 1997)
"There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one’s identity by falling in love." (Lukas Foss)
"If you look for the truth outside yourself, it gets farther and farther away." (Tung-shan)
"If one will just think about what he is to do for the day at hand, he will be able to do anything. If it is a single day's work, one should be able to put up with it. Tomorrow, too, is but a single day." (Hagakure)
"Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty." (John Finley)
"No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye." (Elizabeth Bowen)
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." (Nelson Mandela)
"Where shall we begin? There is no beginning. Start where you arrive. Stop before what entices you. And work! You will enter little by little into the entirety. Method will be born in proportion to your interest." (Auguste Rodin)
"The most dangerous of our prejudices reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act." (Hugo von Hofmannsthal)
"[…] there are no backwaters. There is only one river, and we are all in it." (Scott Russell Sanders, “Writing from the Center”, 1997)
"There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one’s identity by falling in love." (Lukas Foss)
"If you look for the truth outside yourself, it gets farther and farther away." (Tung-shan)
"If one will just think about what he is to do for the day at hand, he will be able to do anything. If it is a single day's work, one should be able to put up with it. Tomorrow, too, is but a single day." (Hagakure)
"Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty." (John Finley)
"No object is mysterious. The mystery is in your eye." (Elizabeth Bowen)
"There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living." (Nelson Mandela)
04 March 2017
Week 2017-09
[#values]
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." (Henry David Thoreau)
[#knowledge, #quest]
"There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out." (Russian saying)
[#attachment, #freedom]
"Do not permit the events of your daily lives to bind you, but never withdraw yourselves from them. Only by acting thus can you earn the title of a Liberated One." (Huang Po)
[#hope, #focus]
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest." (Dalai Lama)
[#change, #strength]
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change." (Dr. Robert Anthony)
[#hope, #fear]
"We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." (François de La Rochefoucauld)
[#learning, #experience]
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." (Douglas Adams)
[#knowledge, #unknown]
"People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?" (Zhuang Zhou)
[#faith, #hope]
"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand." ( Thomas Aquinas )
[#success, #dreams]
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." (Swami Vivekananda)
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." (Henry David Thoreau)
[#knowledge, #quest]
"There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out." (Russian saying)
[#attachment, #freedom]
"Do not permit the events of your daily lives to bind you, but never withdraw yourselves from them. Only by acting thus can you earn the title of a Liberated One." (Huang Po)
[#hope, #focus]
"I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest." (Dalai Lama)
[#change, #strength]
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change." (Dr. Robert Anthony)
[#hope, #fear]
"We promise according to our hopes, and perform according to our fears." (François de La Rochefoucauld)
[#learning, #experience]
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." (Douglas Adams)
[#knowledge, #unknown]
"People value that part of knowledge which is known. They do not know how to avail themselves of the Unknown in order to reach knowledge. Is this not misguided?" (Zhuang Zhou)
[#faith, #hope]
"Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand." ( Thomas Aquinas )
[#success, #dreams]
"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success." (Swami Vivekananda)
25 February 2017
Week 2017-08
"Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves; to like themselves." (Bonaro Overstreet)
"Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs. (Eric Temple Bell, "The Search for Truth")
"Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs. (Eric Temple Bell, "The Search for Truth")
"If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much." (Lewis Carroll)
"So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible." (Norton Juster)
"You will, if you’re wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it." (Freya Stark)
"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." (Jane Smiley)
"A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play." (Friedrich Nietzsche)
"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." (Seneca the Younger)
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." (Herman Melville)
"There can only be one solution to any problem: a change in attitude and in consciousness." (Gregg Braden)
"So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible." (Norton Juster)
"You will, if you’re wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it." (Freya Stark)
"In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it." (Jane Smiley)
"A man's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child at play." (Friedrich Nietzsche)
"Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." (Seneca the Younger)
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation." (Herman Melville)
"There can only be one solution to any problem: a change in attitude and in consciousness." (Gregg Braden)
18 February 2017
Week 2017-07
"Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination." (Roy M. Goodman)
"If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits." (Don Ward)
"Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you." (Kabir)
"Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire." (Anatole France)
"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." (Theodore N. Vail)
"Stand up to your obstacles; do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have." (Zen saying)
"If you want to succeed in this world you don't have to be much cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier." (Leó Szilárd)
"Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it." (Zen saying)
"Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves." (William Gilbert)
"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe." (Anatole France)
"If you are going to doubt something, doubt your limits." (Don Ward)
"Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you." (Kabir)
"Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. Put there just a spark. If there is some good inflammable stuff, it will catch fire." (Anatole France)
"Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable." (Theodore N. Vail)
"Stand up to your obstacles; do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have." (Zen saying)
"If you want to succeed in this world you don't have to be much cleverer than other people, you just have to be one day earlier." (Leó Szilárd)
"Regardless of your lot in life, you can build something beautiful on it." (Zen saying)
"Look for knowledge not in books but in things themselves." (William Gilbert)
"Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe." (Anatole France)
11 February 2017
Week 2017-06
"Speed is useful only if you are running in the right direction." (Joel Barker)
"Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark." (Zen saying)
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds." (John Maynard Keynes)
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol)
"Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them." (Zen saying)
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice." (Samuel Johnson)
"Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth." (Tom Barrett)
"To uncover the truth is not difficult, but to follow the truth is formidable." (Chinese saying)
"Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know." (Enrico Fermi)
"Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it’s dark." (Zen saying)
"The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds." (John Maynard Keynes)
"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." (Andy Warhol)
"Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them." (Zen saying)
"True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice." (Samuel Johnson)
"Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth." (Tom Barrett)
"To uncover the truth is not difficult, but to follow the truth is formidable." (Chinese saying)
"Never underestimate the joy people derive from hearing something they already know." (Enrico Fermi)
04 February 2017
Week 2017-05
[#quest, #solitude]
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." (Henry David Thoreau)
[#success, #happiness]
"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it." (Andy Rooney)
[#values]
"He that despiseth small things, shall fall by little and little." (Ecclesiasticus)
[#meditation]
"Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution." (Ajahn Sumedho)
[#ego, #knowledge]
"When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in." (D.H. Lawrence)
[#happiness, #effort]
"Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness." (Zhuang Zhou)
[#learning, #habitude]
"You learn more from getting used to things than from studying." (Japanese saying)
[#choice]
"How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you." (Sarah Reijonen)
[#change, #love]
"You change your life by changing your heart." (Max Lucado)
[#choice, #chance]
"Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable." (Pythagoras)
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." (Henry David Thoreau)
[#success, #happiness]
"Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it." (Andy Rooney)
[#values]
"He that despiseth small things, shall fall by little and little." (Ecclesiasticus)
[#meditation]
"Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution." (Ajahn Sumedho)
[#ego, #knowledge]
"When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in." (D.H. Lawrence)
[#happiness, #effort]
"Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness." (Zhuang Zhou)
[#learning, #habitude]
"You learn more from getting used to things than from studying." (Japanese saying)
[#choice]
"How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you." (Sarah Reijonen)
[#change, #love]
"You change your life by changing your heart." (Max Lucado)
[#choice, #chance]
"Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable." (Pythagoras)
28 January 2017
Week 2017-04
"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations." (Leo Buscaglia)
"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it's unlikely that you will step up and take responsibility for making it so." (Noam Chomsky)
"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty." (Frank Herbert, "Dune Chronicles: Chapterhouse")
"It is not wisdom but ignorance that teaches men presumption. Genius may sometimes be arrogant, but nothing is so diffident as knowledge." (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." (Samuel Johnson)
"All the knowledge that we mortals can acquire is not knowledge positive, but knowledge comparative, and subject to the errors and passions of humanity." (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
"Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values." (Dalai Lama)
"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them." (Henry Bolingbroke)
"Keeping an open mind is a virtue, but not so open that your brains fall out." (James Oberg)
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings." (Anaïs Nin)
"Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it's unlikely that you will step up and take responsibility for making it so." (Noam Chomsky)
"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty." (Frank Herbert, "Dune Chronicles: Chapterhouse")
"It is not wisdom but ignorance that teaches men presumption. Genius may sometimes be arrogant, but nothing is so diffident as knowledge." (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are." (Samuel Johnson)
"All the knowledge that we mortals can acquire is not knowledge positive, but knowledge comparative, and subject to the errors and passions of humanity." (Edward Bulwer-Lytton)
"Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values." (Dalai Lama)
"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them." (Henry Bolingbroke)
"Keeping an open mind is a virtue, but not so open that your brains fall out." (James Oberg)
"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings." (Anaïs Nin)
21 January 2017
Week 2017-03
[#assumptions, #errors]
"Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions." (Frank Herbert, “Dune - Children of Dune”)
[#wisdom, #knowledge]
"To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things." (Saint Augustine)
[#skills, #growth]
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." (Henry David Thoreau)
[#love, #desire]
"Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company." (Milan Kundera)
[#letting go, #control]
"Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself." (Deborah Reber)
[#limits, #balance]
"Sometimes we have to travel to the edge of ourselves to find the center." (Buck Ghosthorse)
[#change, #perception]
"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it." (Mary Engelbreit)
[#appearances, #errors]
"Be suspicious of anything that works perfectly - it’s probably because two errors are canceling each other out." (Dave Bartley)
[#teaching, #practice]
"Never forget that, at the most, the teacher can give you fifteen percent of the art. The rest you have to get for yourself through practice and hard work." (Tan Soh Tin)
[#reason, #action]
"Those who will not reason perish in the act: Those who will not act perish for that reason." (W.H. Auden)
"Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions." (Frank Herbert, “Dune - Children of Dune”)
[#wisdom, #knowledge]
"To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things." (Saint Augustine)
[#skills, #growth]
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor." (Henry David Thoreau)
[#love, #desire]
"Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company." (Milan Kundera)
[#letting go, #control]
"Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself." (Deborah Reber)
[#limits, #balance]
"Sometimes we have to travel to the edge of ourselves to find the center." (Buck Ghosthorse)
[#change, #perception]
"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it." (Mary Engelbreit)
[#appearances, #errors]
"Be suspicious of anything that works perfectly - it’s probably because two errors are canceling each other out." (Dave Bartley)
[#teaching, #practice]
"Never forget that, at the most, the teacher can give you fifteen percent of the art. The rest you have to get for yourself through practice and hard work." (Tan Soh Tin)
[#reason, #action]
"Those who will not reason perish in the act: Those who will not act perish for that reason." (W.H. Auden)
14 January 2017
Week 2017-02
"The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds." (Nicholas Sparks)
"Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain." (Frank Herbert, "Dune")
"No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn’t take a hard look at itself." (John W. Campbell)
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained." (C. S. Lewis)
"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." (Albert Camus)
"Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another." (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
"Forgiving someone doesn’t give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on." (Charles F Glassman)
"Your strength is in your calmness, in the clarity of your mind. Strength comes from putting the negative aside without reacting. Win in calmness, in consciousness, in balance. Win without fighting." (Yogi Amrit Desai)
"Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.: (Thomas Mann)
"Do not destroy what you cannot create." (Leó Szilárd)
"Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain." (Frank Herbert, "Dune")
"No literature is sound, no philosophy of action workable, if it doesn’t take a hard look at itself." (John W. Campbell)
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained." (C. S. Lewis)
"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it." (Albert Camus)
"Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another." (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
"Forgiving someone doesn’t give them a free pass. It gives you a free pass to move on." (Charles F Glassman)
"Your strength is in your calmness, in the clarity of your mind. Strength comes from putting the negative aside without reacting. Win in calmness, in consciousness, in balance. Win without fighting." (Yogi Amrit Desai)
"Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.: (Thomas Mann)
"Do not destroy what you cannot create." (Leó Szilárd)
07 January 2017
Week 2017-01
"One does not set out in search of new lands without being willing to be alone on an empty sea." (André Gide)
"Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom."(Herbert Simon)
"Suffering is a challenge; when you suffer you are challenged, when there is a problem you are challenged. When you encounter the problem, only then do you grow. More insecurity, more growth; more security, less growth. If everything is secure around you, you are already in your grave, you are no longer alive. Life exists in danger, life always exists in the possibility of going astray. But one who goes astray can come back, one who fails can succeed." (Osho)
"If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy." (Donald Knuth)
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." (Gandhi)
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship." (Omar Bradley)
"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge." (Alfred N Whitehead)
"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test." (Elbert Hubbard)
"This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here - the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos." (Frank Herbert, “Dune Chronicles: Heretics of Dune”)
"Human beings know a lot of things, some of which are true, and apply them. When we like the results, we call it wisdom."(Herbert Simon)
"Suffering is a challenge; when you suffer you are challenged, when there is a problem you are challenged. When you encounter the problem, only then do you grow. More insecurity, more growth; more security, less growth. If everything is secure around you, you are already in your grave, you are no longer alive. Life exists in danger, life always exists in the possibility of going astray. But one who goes astray can come back, one who fails can succeed." (Osho)
"If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy." (Donald Knuth)
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well." (Gandhi)
"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship." (Omar Bradley)
"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge." (Alfred N Whitehead)
"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test." (Elbert Hubbard)
"This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here - the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos." (Frank Herbert, “Dune Chronicles: Heretics of Dune”)
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