Everyone post some favorite quotes!

[thelerner]

3 hours ago, rideforever said:

You have a right to kill me.

You have a right to do that… but you have no right to judge me.

 

Horror has a face… and you must make a friend of horror.

Horror and mortal terror are your friends.

If they are not then they are enemies to be feared.

 

- "Kurtz"

Don't think I'll exercise the 'right' to kill "Kurtz"

but I judge him to be a little bit nutz. 

 

maybe it's wrong or immoral to judge him,

could be my assumptions are wrong,

but looks like i got away with it, this time. 

 

Hopefully the future will not judge me harshly for it.

[liminal_luke]

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

 

Winston Churchill

[moment]

 “He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because he fears.” — Michel De Montaigne

[thelerner]

"Just because social media runs on outrage, doesn't mean I have too" - Me.

[moment]

The world is a much more intimate and spiritual place than most people realize.

[moment]

On 2/14/2019 at 2:22 PM, thelerner said:

Don't think I'll exercise the 'right' to kill "Kurtz"

but I judge him to be a little bit nutz. 

 

maybe it's wrong or immoral to judge him,

could be my assumptions are wrong,

but looks like i got away with it, this time. 

 

Hopefully the future will not judge me harshly for it.

Very well said.  But, I disagree with the last line. Screw the futures' judgement. Being a thoughtful person, you do what you think is best.

Everything else will sort it self out.

[moment]

The sparkles in my lawn on a cold, crisp night are like the stars in the sky.  There is beauty everywhere.

[moment]

Never test the depth of the river with both feet.
 

[neti neti]

"Good derives its virtue from evil, just as it is the silent pause that gives sweetness to the chant." ~St. Thomas Aquinas

[moment]

Mountain veiled, dawning haled, autumn trees, changing leaves and silence.

Edited March 20, 2019 by moment

[silent thunder]

the following just arose in awareness:

 

as above, so below

heal the heart, heal the whole

[rene]

1 hour ago, silent thunder said:

the following just arose in awareness:

 

as above, so below

heal the heart, heal the whole

beautiful, & best example of

Both, same time.

[neti neti]

"The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there, and roam."

 

~Bhagawan Nityananda

[moment]

“What we call “I” is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale.”

 

                    ------ Shunryu Suzuki

[moment]

 “ The nature of yoga is to shine the light of awareness into the darkest corners of the body.” — Jason Crandell.

[moment]

Tai chi does not mean oriental wisdom or something exotic. It is the wisdom of your own senses, your own mind and body together as one process. ~Chungliang Al Huang

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At the higher stages of energy continuation, one will find his movements are now being governed by the movement of his internal energy. ~Wu Ta-yeh

[moment]

Without aligning your energies daily, life clogs. ~Terri Guillemets

[silent thunder]

On Children

 

Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

 

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow,
which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them,
but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children
as living arrows are sent forth.

            Kahlil Gibran

[silent thunder]

I know that you believe you understood what you think I said;

but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

 

Robert McCloskey

[liminal_luke]

“Am I perfect? No. But am I striving to be a better person every day? Also no.” Anonymous

[silent thunder]

Upon walking in to find his students waiting for him, he proclaimed.

 

"you are all perfect, exactly as you are... and you could all use, a little improvement."

Shunryu Suzuki

[moment]

Feeding the Ego is like any other addiction.  It always wants more.

[lifeforce]

Follow the stream to find the source.

[moment]

There are no secrets-- Cheng Manching

Edited April 3, 2019 by moment