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- Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference. You are all of them,…
- Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous…
- The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or…
- Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.
- The Highest to which people can attain is wonder; and if the prime phenomenon makes them wonder, let them be content; nothing higher can it…
- Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they…
- If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
- So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the…
- Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end,"…
- Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my"…
- For we have never actually understood the revolutionary sense beneath them – the incredible truth that what religion calls the vision of God is found…
- The clash between science and religion has not shown that religion is false and science is true. It has shown that all systems of definition…
- Do not let the rapidity with which these thoughts can change deceive you into feeling that you think them all at once.
- Your body does not eliminate poisons by knowing their names. To try to control fear or depression or boredom by calling them names is to…
- No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the…
- Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be…
- When your eyes are functioning well you don't see your eyes. If your eyes are imperfect you see spots in front of them. That means…
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle