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." (Shunryƫ 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)

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