Everyone post some favorite quotes!

[blue eyed snake]

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[Starjumper]

The reason there are so many fake teachers is because there are so many fake students.

[blue eyed snake]

1 hour ago, Starjumper said:

The reason there are so many fake teachers is because there are so many fake students.

[cold]

As long as your line is baited, there is always hope.

Norwegian proverb

[neti neti]

"Good and evil have an equal share in moulding character, and in some instances misery is a greater teacher than happiness. 

 

In studying the great characters the world has produced, I dare say, in the vast majority of cases, it would be found that it was misery that taught more than happiness, it was poverty that taught more than wealth, it was blows that brought out their inner fire more than praise."

 

~Swami Vivekananda

[neti neti]

"Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment."

 

~Chogym Trungpa

[Marblehead]

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Sir Winston Churchill

[blue eyed snake]

[Miffymog]

In silent and serene illumination, the energy is lively, smooth and level, magnificently peaceful.

 

Do not leave any traces and inside and outside will merge into one totality.

 

Stillness is your shelter, alone and splendid within the circle.

 

 

 

Hongzhi Zhengjue

[neti neti]

"Someone sees in a dream that they are a ruler. 
They are seated on a throne with servants, 
chamberlains and princess standing by. 
They say, “I am ruler, and there is no ruler but I.” 
They say this in their sleep.

When they wake up and see no one in the house but themself,  they say, “I am, and there is no other than that I Am.”

 

To realize this, one must be fully awake." ~Rumi

[dwai]

I can't dance. I can't talk. Only thing about me is the way I walk.

 

~ Genesis.

[cold]

as it is better to wank with Ponds cold cream instead of wet coarse grit and sand.

 

shanlung

[Marblehead]

2 hours ago, cold said:

as it is better to wank with Ponds cold cream instead of wet coarse grit and sand.

 

shanlung

Repeated for posterity.

 

[9th]

Quote

“There is a pleasure sure in being mad which none but madmen know.”
― John Dryden

 

 

[9th]

Quote

Issa said that man had filled the temples with his abominations. In order to pay homage to metals and stones, man sacrificed his fellows in whom dwells a spark of the Supreme Spirit. Man demeans those who labor by the sweat of their brows, in order to gain the good will of the sluggard who sits at the lavishly set board. But they who deprive their brothers of the common blessing shall be themselves stripped of it.

 

- Nicholas Roerich

 

[C T]

My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories,

and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically,

but that they told them symbolically, and we are now

dumb enough to take them literally. 

 

~ John D. Crossan ~ 

Edited February 8, 2018 by C T

[silent thunder]

1 hour ago, C T said:

My point, once again, is not that those ancient people told literal stories,

and we are now smart enough to take them symbolically,

but that they told them symbolically, and we are now

dumb enough to take them literally. 

 

~ John D. Crossan ~ 

very true, very sad story.

[blue eyed snake]

[Marblehead]

That's a trick statement because some things people do should be stopped by whatever means necessary.

 

 

[Jonesboy]

Zhuangzi dream:

 

He dreamed he was a butterfly. When he woke up, he had a dilemma

 

Was he dreaming that he is a butterfly, or is he a butterfly dreaming he's human

[cold]

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Mark Twain

[Marblehead]

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw

[neti neti]

"One Syllable shines forever in the Heart as Self; who can write It down?" ~Sri Bhagavan Ramana

[blue eyed snake]

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke
 

[neti neti]

"The goddess of sensuality is very fond of the human sacrifice, and she likes it fried alive." ~Siddharameshwar Maharaj