Everyone post some favorite quotes!

[ThisLife]

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No one ever says, "It's only a game," when their team is winning.

Edited May 1, 2015 by ThisLife

[blue eyed snake]

Freedom begins with the game of chance. 

[DreamBliss]

"We should no more weep for the one who has died,
Than we would for the caterpillar entering the cocoon."

 

"There are no limits to what you can do, unless they have been set by you!"

 

"Love comes from the heart, not the mind."

 

"Answer repression with creative expression."

 

- Mark Wey AKA DreamBliss

Edited May 11, 2015 by DreamBliss

[C T]

I recently read in the book, "My Stroke of Insight", by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor, that the natural life span of an emotion - the time taken for it to move through the nervous system and body - is only a minute and a half. After that, we need thoughts to keep the emotion rolling. So, if we wonder why we lock into painful emotional states like anxiety, depression, or rage, we need look no further than our own endless stream of inner dialogue.

 

~ Tara Brach

[C T]

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later

give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through

social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start

looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences 

show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey

of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following their heart 

instead of following the crowd, and by choosing knowledge over the veils

of ignorance. 

 

~ Henri Bergson (1907), on Intuition vs Intellect

[Songtsan]

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering - Bruce Lee

[maldor]

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool."

 

-Richard P. Feynman

[silent thunder]

“If you prefer smoke over fire
then get up now and leave.
For I do not intend to perfume
your mind's clothing
with more sooty knowledge.

No, I have something else in mind.
Today I hold a flame in my left hand
and a sword in my right.
There will be no damage control today.

For God is in a mood
to plunder your riches and
fling you nakedly
into such breathtaking poverty
that all that will be left of you
will be a tendency to shine.

So don't just sit around this flame
choking on your mind.
For this is no campfire song
to mindlessly mantra yourself to sleep with.

Jump now into the space
between thoughts
and exit this dream
before I burn the damn place down.”
Adyashanti
 

[silent thunder]

eat healthy.

exercise.

die anyway.

 

unknown

[silent thunder]

“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” Augusten Burroughs

[C T]

"One of the things that has brought a lot of people, especially Westerners who teach Zen, into disrepute is the fact that they think that because they have had an enlightenment experience they are totally free of karma, and they are not. I can remember meeting a couple in Japan who were convinced that anybody who studied the precepts was just plain silly: what you had to do was get beyond the opposites, and then you were totally free. The only time I saw my master, Koho Zenji, shudder was when I told him this. And he said, 'I fear for Zen if this is so.' So please remember, if you meet a teacher who says he or she can do as they like, without karmic consequence, without 'comeuppance' if you like that term better, watch out! That’s a very dangerous person."  ~ Rev. Master Jiyu-Kennett

[blue eyed snake]

[Marblehead]

Oh!, but that monkey mind is so hard to keep silent.

[blue eyed snake]

I do not remember Rumi saying it was ( or should be) easy...

but it might be

[MooNiNite]

Oh!, but that monkey mind is so hard to keep silent.

 

just takes a little bit of responsibility eh?

[Marblehead]

just takes a little bit of responsibility eh?

A little bit?  How about a bunch?  But yes, you are pointing at the real thing.

[maldor]

"Incapable of refining the real, thought pauses to mimic it."

 

Albert Camus

[Marblehead]

 

Albert Camus

I have a complete collection of his work.

 

Many of his thoughts are a part of who/what I am.

[blue eyed snake]

"Incapable of refining the real, thought pauses to mimic it."

 

Albert Camus

 

I have a complete collection of his work.

 

Many of his thoughts are a part of who/what I am.

 

grin.....it seems to me that many a cultivator here is just trying to do that, refining the real  

[blue eyed snake]

more Rumi

 

[blue eyed snake]

The child asked its parent:

"why do I have a name?"

 

"When you have a name, i can call you.

When I call you, you can come.

When you come I can hold you,

 

and when i can hold you, I can let you go"

[9th]

“I will tell you one thing that will make you rich for life. There are two struggles: an Inner-world struggle and an Outer-world struggle...you must make an intentional contact between these two worlds; then you can crystallize data for the Third World, the World of the Soul.”

 

- Gurdjieff

[9th]

And the LORD God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil:

and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:

Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims,

and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

 

- Book of Genesis

[9th]

“In sum, the mysterious female is the source of yin and yang, the house of spirit and energy. Spirit and energy are the medicines of essence and life, the root of womb breathing, the ancestor of respiration, the way to make the roots deep and the stem firm. The ‘womb’ is the place where the spirit is stored, the breathing is the basis of evolving the embryo. The embryo is produced by the breathing, the breathing is stabilized by the embryo. Without the breath, the embryo does not form, without the spirit, the breathing has no master”

 

- Ch’en Hsu-pai

[Taomeow]

Man invented the atom bomb.  Somehow It never occurred to a single mouse to invent the mousetrap. -- A German aphorist whose name I forget