Everyone post some favorite quotes!

[Philip]

"Fear of death only comes through the brittleness of the ego." - Ram Das

 

"Yes, I have an ego and it looks similar to the one I dropped to, as you say, achieve nirvana. But then I came back all enlightened and everything, and I needed something to wear. I looked around and there's my discarded ego lying in a pile on the floor, so I slipped into it and here I am." - Jed McKenna

 

"Once you know that death happens to the body and not to you, you just watch your body falling off like a discarded garment. The real you is timeless and beyond birth and death. The body will survive as long as it is needed. It is not important that it should live long." - Maharaj

[space]

The highest of the high knows only that lower

The lowest of the low knows only that higher

All others lie in between....

 

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[Ben D]

Suppress the impulses of the will,

Unravel the errors of the mind,

Untie the knots of the emotions,

Unblock the free flow of Tau.

 

Glory and riches, prominence and position, fame and profit,

These six are the impulses of the will,

Personal appearance and style, beauty and cleverness, excitement and memory,

These six are the errors of the mind,

Hatred and desire, pleasure and anger, sadness and joy,

These six are the knots of the emotions,

Rejection and acceptance, receiving and giving, knowledge and ability,

These six obstruct the free flow of Tau.

 

When the four conditions and their six causes,

No longer disturb your heart,

Then you will be correct,

Being correct, you are calm,

Being calm, you are clear,

Being clear, you are empty,

Empty! the state of doing nothing in which everything gets done.

 

-----A Taoist Saying.

[Guest miss tick]

"When the doors of perception are cleansed, things will appear as they truly are."~William Blake

 

"Ignorance is the cause of all human suffering."~Buddha

[Stoo Lee]

this loaded phallus

has becum

the prevailing metaphor

of the day

 

you've spent your chi

on cheap versions

of the virgin

 

you've worshipped

loopholes in a story

and war shipped

mythic men to glory

 

if in god's image

then your god's

a plastic surgeon

 

a tyrannic dictator

 

a coward behind a curtain

with a megaphone

 

an aging oil tycoon

on viagra

ramming his plow

into the earth

turning up disease

and disaster

out of an ever-drying womb

 

...

 

your prayers

between rounds

do no more

than fasten the fate

of your children

to the hammered truth

of your trigger

 

a truth that mushrooms

its darkened cloud

over the rest of us

so that we too

bear witness

to the short-lived fate

of a civilization

that worships

a male god

 

your weapons

are phallic

all of them

 

--- Saul Williams

[The Way 1]

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

David Icke

 

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

David Icke

[Ryan T.]

"Our whole existence is nothing but a long apprenticeship to enable us to survive the disasters that come either from without or within us, until the quiet hours of the evening, the sunset, and the good death, for which, during this whole long life, we have been secretly prepared through the return within the advancing of time."

 

~Kristofer Schipper: The Taoist Body(page 214)

[DaoWaDiddy]

"If God dropped acid, would he see people?"

 

~ Steven Wright

[Desert Eagle]

"The Jews divided into 72 sects, the Christians divided into 73 sects, my nation (Muslims) will divide into 74 sects." -Prophet Mohammad.

Edited October 24, 2008 by Desert Eagle

[guangping]

" When God wants to destroy an ant, He gives it wings " - Idries Shah

[Vajrasattva]

"If you ain't got juice you ain't got shit!" - Dr. Glenn Morris

[Wanderer]

I think a little Mark Twain might be in order here. For your perusal, some of my favorites from the Humorist himself.

 

1) Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

 

2) In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.

 

3) It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

 

4) Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

 

5) All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

 

6) Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

 

7) Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

 

8) The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

 

9) The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

 

10) The report of my death was an exaggeration.

[metzu]

"The most difficult person to get an appointment with is myself"

[Spiritual_Aspirant]

I just happened upon this list of quotes that were extremely good...I had been looking for lao tzu's one about patience on google and typed in "patience tao three"

 

Thank you, Matthew, for the inspirational thoughts. On this Palm Sunday, this first day of spring, this day of troubled news from many parts of our world, I find myself in great need of hope and inspiration to fill my mind and soul with healing thoughts, so that I can help do my part to heal the soul of our country, our world.

 

With that in mind, I offer these thoughts from those masters whom I consider wise.

 

Peace and joy and love and light. Peace, peace, peace.

 

madame defarge

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If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

-- Thich Nhat Hanh

 

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

-- Mahatma Ghandi

 

It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.

-- Confucius

 

It is better to live one day ethically and reflectively than to live a hundred years immoral and unrestrained.

-- Buddha

 

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

 

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless in facing them. Let us not beg for the stilling of the pain but for the heart to conquer it.

-- Rabindranath Tagore

 

A man becomes like those whose society he loves.

-- Hindu proverb

 

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

-- Lao-tzu

 

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways -- either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.

-- Dalai Lama

 

At the end of the way is freedom. Till then, patience.

-- Buddha

 

 

My favorite quote is by the Buddhist saint Shantideva

 

"For as long as space endures,

For as long as living beings remain,

Until then may I too abide,

To dispel the misery of the world."

[Vance]

"We have invented a sin for which there isn't even a word in English that I am aware of, it's the sin of stealing the future from your own children." - Terence Mckenna

 

"Laugh your way to God"- Osho (vincevance.vox.com)

 

"A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about."

 

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

 

[tealady]

Here are a few of my favorites.

 

 

 

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

- John Quincy Adams

 

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

- Anna Freud

 

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

- Edith Wharton

 

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

- Elie Wiesel

[gossamer]

"When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about"!

(Edward Abbey)

 

 

Sigourney Weaver: "Come inside of me."

 

Bill Murray: "Hey, it's too crowded in there already!"

 

*Ghost Busters*

[JackSquat]

"In my dream, in my last morning-dream, I stood to-day on a promontory-- beyond the world; I held a pair of scales, and WEIGHED the world.

 

Alas, that the rosy dawn came too early to me: she glowed me awake, the jealous one! Jealous is she always of the glows of my morning-dream.

 

Measurable by him who hath time, weighable by a good weigher, attainable by strong pinions, divinable by divine nut-crackers: thus did my dream find the world:--

 

My dream, a bold sailor, half-ship, half-hurricane, silent as the butterfly, impatient as the falcon: how had it the patience and leisure to-day for world-weighing!

 

Did my wisdom perhaps speak secretly to it, my laughing, wide-awake day- wisdom, which mocketh at all "infinite worlds"? For it saith: "Where force is, there becometh NUMBER the master: it hath more force."

 

How confidently did my dream contemplate this finite world, not new- fangledly, not old-fangledly, not timidly, not entreatingly:--

 

--As if a big round apple presented itself to my hand, a ripe golden apple, with a coolly-soft, velvety skin:--thus did the world present itself unto me:--

 

--As if a tree nodded unto me, a broad-branched, strong-willed tree, curved as a recline and a foot-stool for weary travellers: thus did the world stand on my promontory:--

 

--As if delicate hands carried a casket towards me--a casket open for the delectation of modest adoring eyes: thus did the world present itself before me to-day:--

 

--Not riddle enough to scare human love from it, not solution enough to put to sleep human wisdom:--a humanly good thing was the world to me to-day, of which such bad things are said!

 

How I thank my morning-dream that I thus at to-day's dawn, weighed the world! As a humanly good thing did it come unto me, this dream and heart- comforter!"

 

 

 

 

 

"He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses."

 

 

 

 

Both quotes are from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

[DrumR]

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[Stigweard]

"Hang your arse in the wind and sooner or later someone is going to come along and want to try it on".

 

Stigweard, 2008

[ddilulo_06]

"One is responsible for one's intention, not for the outcome."

 

"Intention isn't trying; it's allowing."

[Walker]

"So they abode awhile in all solace of life and its delight and their days were serene and their joys untroubled, till there came to them the Destroyer of delights and the Sunderer of societies, the Depopulator of populous places and the Orphaner of sons and daughters. And glory be to the Living who dieth not and in whose hand are the Keys of the Seen and the Unseen."

 

-The last line of Shahrazad's last story in the 1001 Nights, abridged Richard Burton translation (capitalization his own). Still takes my breath away a little bit.

[Peng Tzu]

I am a walking library of Philosophical quotes, I am glad someone made a topic like this. Here are my favorites:

 

The way of heaven has no favorites, it's always with the good man- lao tzu

 

those who are good do not have a lot, and those who have a lot are not good- lao tzu

 

i shall endure harsh words, as the elephant in battle endures arrows, for most people behave poorly- the Buddha

 

One is best punished for his virtues- Nietzsche

 

The crime we have against criminals is that we treat them like scoundrels- Nietzsche

 

The Poor Man needs to walk to get meat for his stomach, the Rich Man needs to walk to get a stomach for his meat- Benjamin Franklin

 

Showing respect to your superiors is duty, to your peers, courtesy, to your inferiors, nobleness.- Benjamin Franklin

[Moth]

A couple of my own that tend to annoy those around me whenever they complain of the weather:

 

"It's only cold because you want it to be hot."

"It's only hot because you want it to be cold."

[froggie]

Perfect makes practise, practise makes perfect

 

-By myself;)