Everyone post some favorite quotes!

[Ben D]

In a controversy, the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. - Buddha ...

[trailmaker]

"...anger insignificantly fierce." "Progress of Error", William Cowper 1731-1800

 

I had a teacher one time said "There's no value in dispute.".

 

"...insignificant in the light of eternity..." Makes sense. Just ramblin' on

[sifusufi]

"I'm a devout musician" Charlie Parker

Edited February 18, 2010 by sifusufi

[sifusufi]

Can't stop the spirits when they need you...

...this life is more than just a read through!

Anthony kiedis - RHCP

[Martial Development]

Better to be a student of reality, than a master of illusion.

[xyz]

just do it.

- Nike

[Cloudhand]

I go to the mountain to drink, I come back down to go to the bathroom.

[trailmaker]

I go to the mountain to drink, I come back down to go to the bathroom.

 

Right - Don't p!ss too close to the well; Don't s-!t upstream, time-honored wisdom...meant as lore in vernacular...

[Marblehead]

"The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress." - Joseph Joubert

[Greentea with Brownrice]

"when a great wound is healed,

there will still remain a scar.

can this be a desirable state of affairs?

 

therefore, the sage, holding the left-hand tally,

performs his part of the covenant,

but lays no claims upon others."

 

 

"the virtuous attends to his duties;

the virtueless knows only to levy duties upon

the people. the way of heaven has no private affections,

but always accords with the good."

 

~Lao Tzu

[Marblehead]

[Eric Yudelove]

When the mode of the music changes,

Beware of the man who does not dance.

 

Frank Zappa

 

Who also said the immortal:

 

I'm going to cover that girl in chocolate syrup

and boogie till the cows come home.

 

MESY

[suninmyeyes]

Praise Allah and tie your camel to the post.

-Sufi saying

[sifusufi]

" Take what you've learned.. set it free... see what you'll see...

 

King's X - Out Of The Silent Planet - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska

Edited May 31, 2010 by sifusufi

[healerman88]

 

Golden rod and the 4-H stone

The things I brought you

When I found out you had cancer of the bone

 

Your father cried on the telephone

And he drove his car to the Navy yard

Just to prove that he was sorry

 

In the morning through the window shade

When the light pressed up against your shoulder blade

I could see what you were reading

 

Oh the glory that the lord has made

And the complications you could do without

When I kissed you on the mouth

 

Tuesday night at the bible study

We lift our hands and pray over your body

But nothing ever happens

 

I remember at Michael's house

In the living room when you kissed my neck

And I almost touched your blouse

 

In the morning at the top of the stairs

When your father found out what we did that night

And you told me you were scared

 

Oh the glory when you ran outside

With your shirt tucked in and your shoes untied

And you told me not to follow you

 

Sunday night when I cleaned the house

I find the card where you wrote it out

With the pictures of your mother

 

On the floor at the great divide

With my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied

I am crying in the bathroom

 

In the morning when you finally go

And the nurse runs in with her head hung low

And the cardinal hits the window

 

In the morning in the winter shade

On the first of March on the holiday

I thought I saw you breathing

 

Oh the glory that the lord has made

And the complications when I see his face

In the morning in the window

 

Oh the glory when he took our place

But he took my shoulders and he shook my face

And he takes and he takes and he takes

 

--- Sufjan Stevens

 

was reading through this thread the other day.

this song makes me cry.

it's stuck in my head now.

thanks.

i mean it.

[sifusufi]

" Ya know when I die I decided I don't want to go to heaven... I don't want to go to heaven... there's gonna be too many extremists up there... I decided I don't want to go to heaven, I want to go to Jazz!

 

I'm gonna say it again in case you didn't hear me the first time!

 

 

I said when I die... I don't want to go to heaven... there's gonna be too many extremists up there!

 

I want to go to Jazz!"

 

 

David Murray David Murray And The Gwoka Masters Of Guadeloupe New Morning Paris 2006 November 26 Go To Jazz

[inflammablefish]

"When you teach, you rob the other person of exercising his or her intellegence, while exercising your own."

-Dr. Harry Wachs

[FT88]

Neo:"Why do my eyes hurt?"

Morpheous:"Becaus uv'e never used hem before"

 

-The Matrix

 

 

"From my home i can percieve the cosmos"

-Lao Tzu

 

 

"Because he does nothing,he leaves nothing undone"

-Lao Tzu

[inflammablefish]

"When you do something right, people will wonder if you've done anything at all."

 

-"God" on Futurama

[island]

"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."

Chinese Proverb.

[Brian]

...

[island]

"When the heart cries for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found."-Sufi aphorism

[trailmaker]

Concluding with take on the people at the bar: all are

"unwavering bands of light" - Kilgore Trout...

[Marblehead]

"Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought." - Francois Gautier

[betwixter]

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Edited September 12, 2010 by betwixter