Everyone post some favorite quotes!

[moment]

“Happy is the man who can recognize in the work of to-day a connected portion of the work of life and an embodiment of the work of Eternity. The foundations of his confidence are unchangeable, for he has been made a partaker of Infinity. He strenuously works out his daily enterprises because the present is given him for a possession.

Thus ought man to be an impersonation of the divine process of nature, and to show forth the union of the infinite with the finite, not slighting his temporal existence, remembering that in it only is individual action possible, nor yet shutting out from his view that which is eternal, knowing that Time is a mystery which man cannot endure to contemplate until eternal Truth enlighten it.”
― James Clerk Maxwell

[moment]

“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”

                                            ― Saul Bellow, To Jerusalem and Back

[moment]

 "The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”

                                       ― Derek Landy

[moment]

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
― Rudyard Kipling

[moment]

Have you ever opened yourself up through the playing of Conch shells?

 

                                              -- me

Edited June 15, 2020 by moment

[silent thunder]

“I said nothing for a time,

just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness

that had been left inside me.”

~ Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

[moment]

Your lungs collapsed, and the machine, unstrained,   

Did all your breathing now. Nothing remained   

But death by drowning on an inland sea   

Of your own fluids, which it seemed could be   

Kindly forestalled by drugs. Both could and would:   

Nothing was said, everything understood,   

At least by us. Your own concerns were not   

Long-term, precisely, when they gave the shot

—You made local arrangements to the bed   

And pulled a pillow round beside your head.

    And so you slept, and died, your skin gone grey,   

Achieving your completeness, in a way.

 

 Excerpt from “Lament” by Thom Gunn.

[moment]

[moment]

A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease.

 

                  ---------John Muir

[moment]

Keep close to Nature's heart--  John Muir

[manitou]

One whose consciousness is extroverted experiences pleasure and pain;

the yogi, on the other hand, whose vision is introverted does not entertain ideas of pain and pleasure.

 

Vasistha's Yoga - III:89

Swami Venkatesananda

[moment]

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

 

                                               ---Aristotle

[moment]

After I'm dead, I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

 

                                                 ------Porcius Marcus  Cato 

Edited June 25, 2020 by moment

[moment]

“There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.” —James Carroll

[moment]

[silent thunder]

"I can explain it to you... but I can't understand it for you."

 

Me to a work-mate on the last show.

 

or when folks are being purposely obtuse, my patience is done and I'm pissy.

 

"I'd try and explain it further... but I don't have enough crayons."

Edited June 27, 2020 by silent thunder

[moment]

[neti neti]

"Justice is not postponed. A perfect equity adjusts its balance in all parts of life. 

 

Oi chusoi Dios aei enpiptousi, -- The dice of God are always loaded. The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself. Take what figure you will, its exact value, nor more nor less, still returns to you.

 

Every secret is told, every crime is punished, every virtue rewarded, every wrong redressed, in silence and certainty.

 

What we call retribution is the universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears.

 

If you see smoke, there must be fire. If you see a hand or a limb, you know that the trunk to which it belongs is there behind."

 

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Mithras]

True wisdom derives from no source

 

A mirror reflects a myriad of images, but remains unchanged

Edited June 29, 2020 by Mithras

[silent thunder]

We are drowning in information

while starving for content and wisdom.

 

~anon

[silent thunder]

So shines a good deed, in a weary world.

 

~Willy Wonka

(by way of Roald Dahl)

[SirPalomides]

"Behold, already on the long parades

the crows anoint the statues with their dirt..." - Wallace Stevens, "Invective against swans"

[silent thunder]

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

~ Mark Twain

[manitou]

17 minutes ago, silent thunder said:

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue, but have taken them at second hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

~ Mark Twain

 

 

That's quite an observation from Samuel.  It makes a real case for self realization.

[silent thunder]

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own soul.
Carl Jung