February 2012
74 posts
“We’re fascinated by the words—but where we meet is in the silence behind them.”
– Ram Dass
“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
– Cormac McCarthy; No Country for Old Men
“What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and...”
– Alan Watts
“Cease trying to work everything out with your minds.
It will get you nowhere....”
– Eileen Caddy
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in...”
– René Descartes
“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
– John Muir
“If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I...”
– Pier Paolo Pasolini
“The wind blows hard among the pines
Toward the beginning
of an endless past....”
– Shinkichi Takahashi
“what matters most is
how well you
walk in the
fire.”
– Charles Bukowski
“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of...”
– Stephen Hawking
“I live in my dreams—that’s what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not...”
– Herman Hesse, Demian
“If you never change your mind, why have one?”
– Edward De Bono
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
– Anaïs Nin
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
– Joseph Campbell
“My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that...”
– Søren Kierkegaard
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three...”
– Lao Tzu
Vidas ajenas.
“God is the Opposite of anything you can imagine.”
– Dhu’l Nun
“The morning breezes have secrets to tell; don’t go back to sleep.”
– Rumi
“Every life is many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting...”
– James Joyce, Ulysses
“She was the music heard faintly on the edge of sound.”
– Raymond Chandler
“Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God.”
– Sylvia Plath, Journals
“Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God.”
– Sylvia Plath, Journals
“The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.”
– Rumi
The more I speak, the less I understand anything at all.
Looking to read Foucault. Where do I start?
“Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember,...”
– Franz Kafka
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others....”
– Thich Nhat Hanh, The Art of Power
“Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is...”
–
Thich Nhat Hanh
“If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything.”
– Miyamoto Musashi
“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.”
– Jack Kerouac
“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
– Horace Mann
“I will gain the most knowledge from those people I intensely love and intensely...”
– Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets
“Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling...”
– Alan Wilson Watts
“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.”
– Rumi
“Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self.”
– Siddhārtha Gautama
“You are a lover of your own experience … not of me … you turn to me to feel your...”
– Rumi
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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature...”
– Søren Kierkegaard
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“Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, A propos de l’existentialisme: Mise au Point
“Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully...”
– Tom Robbins
“we were made to accomplish the easy
things
and made to live through the things...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could...”
– Charles Bukowski
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside,...”
– Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and...”
– Norton Juster
“I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I...”
– Steve Jobs
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s...”
– Audre Lorde
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“In my life nothing goes wrong. When things seem to not meet my expectations, I...”
– Deepak Chopra
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka