Everyone post some favorite quotes!

[gatito]

The world is but a show, glittering and empty. It is, and yet it is not. It is there as long as I want to see it and take part in it. When I cease caring, it dissolves. It has no cause and serves no purpose. It just happens when we are absent-minded. It appears exactly as it looks, but there is no depth in it, nor meaning. Only the onlooker is real, call him Self or Atma. To the Self, the world is but a colourful show, which he enjoys as long as it lasts and forgets when it is over. Whatever happens on the stage makes him shudder in terror or roll with laughter, yet all the time he is aware that it is but a show. Without desire or fear, he enjoys it, as it happens.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[Antares]

There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way

 

Buddha

[GrandmasterP]

Faster than prunes through a short grandmother.

(Terry Pratchett)

[gatito]

IF.....

 

IF you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated, don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;

If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings

And never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

' Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,

if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

 

Rudyard Kipling

[ShenLung]

Written on the wall of drill hall 900, Great Lakes naval training center, near Chicago, Ill (back in the day)

 

"The true meaning of discipline is not punishment, but the ability in men to strive for perfection, and achieve excellence."

 

That thought has gotten me through some very hard miles.

[Protector]

"If stupidity got us into this mess why cant it get us out?"

[C T]

"If stupidity got us into this mess why cant it get us out?"

 

Cos the light at the end of tunnel had to be turned off due to cost-cutting measures imposed across the board.

[C T]

"When i was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life.

 

When i went to school, they asked me what i wanted to be when i grew up.

 

I wrote down, "H A P P Y".

 

They told me i didn't understand the assignment and

i told them they didn't understand life. "

 

 

 

(the naked guru)

[gatito]

Stop hurting yourself and others, stop suffering, wake up. When you begin to question your dream, awakening will be not far away.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[ShenLung]

"When i was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to life.

 

When i went to school, they asked me what i wanted to be when i grew up.

 

I wrote down, "H A P P Y".

 

They told me i didn't understand the assignment and

i told them they didn't understand life. "

 

 

 

(the naked guru)

 

If this tale is true .. may I be your student?

 

if not, it's still damn good. Cheers.

[OnPhourCoughee]

'BooBoo,' my dog, 'is the best Taoist and Football', my other dog, 'is the best Buddhist. You could learn from them.'

[ShenLung]

'BooBoo,' my dog, 'is the best Taoist and Football', my other dog, 'is the best Buddhist. You could learn from them.'

 

I've already mentioned Boo in previous posts

 

Foot is, I think a menace to society.

[OnPhourCoughee]

 

 

I've already mentioned Boo in previous posts

 

Foot is, I think a menace to society.

As Ho, he is. Foot is a flat coat retriever aka everybodys best friend, even yours. How about your cat, Cat?

[ShenLung]

As Ho, he is. Foot is a flat coat retriever aka everybodys best friend, even yours. How about your cat, Cat?

 

Cat is not MY cat, he is just cat. That is what he is, I see no need to project anything else into my understanding of him.

 

(and now you see how partners in a taoist relationship argue)

 

What the heck is that picture of, anyway?

 

Your flat coat retriever eats my socks. I don't find that very friendly.

 

<3 (I have to do that, you see, or else she will kill me when I'm sleeping )

[GrandmasterP]

Cats have staff, not owners.

[gatito]

My intention to wake you up is the link [between our respective dreams]. My heart wants you awake. I see you suffer in your dream and I know that you must wake up to end your woes. When you see your dream as dream, you wake up. But in your dream itself I am not interested. Enough for me to know that you must wake up. You need not bring your dream to a definite conclusion, or make it noble, or happy, or beautiful; all you need is to realize that you are dreaming. Stop imagining, stop believing. See the contradictions, the incongruities, the falsehood and the sorrow of the human state, the need to go beyond. In dream you love some and not others. On waking up you find you are love itself, embracing all. Personal love, however intense and genuine, invariably binds; love in freedom is love of all.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[Marblehead]

"The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right." - Hannah Whitall Smith

[CloudHands]

"Everything that is not given is lost."

 

Gybsy proverb : )

[Protector]

"if a person wins an argument, he has learned nothing"

[Brian]

There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.

 

James Madison

[Protector]

I don't know what you call an accent, but I've got it

[GrandmasterP]

The workers, united; shall never be defeated.

(Trotsky)

((Pre ice-pick))

[Apech]

Hell is other people.

Jean-Paul Sartre

[gatito]

I am told I was born. I do not remember. I am told I shall die. I do not expect it. You tell me I have forgotten or I lack imagination. But I just cannot remember what never happened, nor expect the patently impossible. Bodies are born and bodies die, but what is it to me? Bodies come and go in consciousness, and consciousness itself has its roots in me. I am life, and mine are mind and body.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

[GrandmasterP]

Just one more shiny sixpence gentlemen and up goes the donkey.

(Terry Pratchett).