silent thunder Posted September 29, 2019 “I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” ― Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking: True Stories 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted October 2, 2019 Revisiting an old friend with new/older eyes... wow... gratitude/resonance... Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me. Rainer Maria Rilke Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows. Rainer Maria Rilke To be here is immense. Rainer Maria Rilke If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable. Rainer Maria Rilke Life + a cat ... adds up to an incalculable sum. Rainer Maria Rilke 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted October 2, 2019 “The soul pauses not. In its world is incessant movement. Genius has no retrospect. Virtue has no memory. And that is the law for man. Live without interval: if you rest on your oars, if you stop, you fall. He only is wise who thinks now; who reproduces all his experience for the present exigency; as a man stands on his feet only by a perpetual play and adjustment of the muscles. A dead body or a statue cannot be set up in the upright posture without support. You must live even to stand.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Taomeow Posted October 2, 2019 “Man is an upright, featherless biped with broad, flat nails.” -- Plato Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted October 3, 2019 Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too. Rainer Maria Rilke Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days? Rainer Maria Rilke 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted October 3, 2019 (edited) I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false. Rainer Maria Rilke Edited October 4, 2019 by silent thunder 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neti neti Posted October 5, 2019 "Human nature is such that if a man is forcibly robbed of a thing, he suffers immensely. He will make persistent efforts to regain that thing. Yet, if he were to part with that same thing out of his own free will, that sacrifice would bring him immense joy." ~Siddharameshwar Maharaj 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted October 5, 2019 (edited) On 10/2/2019 at 9:14 PM, silent thunder said: Understand, I'll slip quietly away from the noisy crowd when I see the pale stars rising, blooming, over the oaks. I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows with only this one dream: You come too. Rainer Maria Rilke Is not impermanence the very fragrance of our days? Rainer Maria Rilke He is new to me but, I like. I will look him up. Thank you Thunder. Edited October 5, 2019 by moment 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted October 5, 2019 (edited) “I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke Not completely true for me but, I sure understand the feeling. Edited October 5, 2019 by moment 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neti neti Posted October 12, 2019 "When one says that he or she was absent a hundred years ago, who says that – the one who was absent or the one who is present?" ~Nisargadatta Maharaj 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted October 15, 2019 The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? ~ Zhuangzi 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Yang Posted October 18, 2019 " There is only a single soul for everything and everyone. The soul does not leave the body after death, Its the body that leaves the soul. " Yang 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted October 19, 2019 (edited) If you know the origin and ignore the end, you cannot expand; if you know the end and ignore the origin, you cannot attain the foundation of subtlety. Isabelle Robinet Edited October 19, 2019 by moment 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted October 19, 2019 The Alchemical Language, or the Effort to Say the Contradictory. Isabelle Robinet Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted October 19, 2019 On 10/14/2019 at 9:41 PM, silent thunder said: The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. Once you've gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him? ~ Zhuangzi The net that must be discarded once the prey has been captured. They intend to give form to the Formless by the word, and thus manifest the authentic and absolute Dao. Words are only steps to be climbed, and that once the highest point has been reached, no word applies anymore. There is a mechanism that surpasses them. This is not easy to explain, but one should comprehend beyond words.” --Li Daochun 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
neti neti Posted October 19, 2019 "One of the marvels of the world is the sight of a soul sitting in a prison with the key in its hand." ~Rumi 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted October 20, 2019 1. not relaxing enough 2. Knowing too much 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted October 20, 2019 Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. Otherwise it will be too easy for you to look with blame... at your past, which naturally has a share with everything that now meets you. ~Rainer Maria Rilke 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted October 20, 2019 2 hours ago, moment said: 1. not relaxing enough 2. Knowing too much whoa... timing...! *deep bow of gratitude* 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
moment Posted October 20, 2019 1 hour ago, silent thunder said: whoa... timing...! *deep bow of gratitude* You and I have been forming a bond that I do not fully understand but, I am grateful for. Be well! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rainbowvein Posted October 21, 2019 On 9/26/2019 at 10:23 AM, moment said: A wise old owl sat in an oak, The more he heard, the less he spoke; The less he spoke, the more he heard; Why aren't we all like that wise old bird? --- anonymous Sounds like an owl 🦉 that I know. His name is Henry. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted October 22, 2019 If you have attained something, this is the surest proof that you have gone astray. Therefore, not to have is to have, silence is thunder, ignorance is enlightenment. D.T. Suzuki !!!!!!!! heard and read so many times... suddenly crystallized 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted October 22, 2019 As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw. ~Shunryu Suzuki 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sagebrush Posted October 24, 2019 "the happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts" Marcus Aurelius (stoic philosopher-Hellenistic period) 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
silent thunder Posted October 24, 2019 "At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance." T.S. Eliot. 1 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
