August 2011
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“One who meditates, all his knots of his heart, the bondages are opened; all the...”
– Upanishads (via lucifelle)
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“Make no judgements where you have no compassion.”
– Anne McCaffrey
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“It has been generally accepted that all we know as the physical reality are the...”
– From: Nuggets of Wisdom, by Ramesh Balsekar
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“We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via journeytoenlightenment)
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“He whose reflexive pure spirit sinks into Atman
Knows bliss inexpressible...”
– Herman Hesse re-quoting one of the Upanishads in Siddharta
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“Tao mystics never talk about God, reincarnation, heaven, hell. No, they don’t...”
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho), “Never Born, Never Died”
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“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds, our planet is the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Feelings are too confusing for me.
Right now I don’t feel sad or angry or happy. But I don’t feel well.
All I know is that I don’t feel right.
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“Never compromise, not even in the face of armageddon.”
– Walter Joseph Kovacs (but really Alan Moore
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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
– Isaac Newton
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“You remain in samsara through the power of laziness, therefore ignite the fire...”
– Atisha - “Advice from Atisha’s Heart” (via dancingdakini)
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“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via journeytoenlightenment)
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“When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her though I know...”
– Shakespeare (Sonnet 138)
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“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”
– Thomas Paine (requoted from my ex-math teacher)
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“Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8 color boxes, but what...”
– John Mayer
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“Music is the vernacular of the human soul.”
– Geoffrey Latham
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“Always keep pure moral discipline, for it leads to beauty in this life and...”
– Atisha - “Advice from Atisha’s Heart”
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“Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.”
– Siddhārtha Gautama
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“There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and...”
– Mental note: Actual notes work better.: The Fence
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what would you do if you you could control your...
I would start by living out a few superficial personal fantasies first but after a few nights of that I would probably get bored.
What I would do after the first week or so is use the extra time to find some sort of personal enlightenment. I’d spend my free time reading and pondering philosophical texts and Ideas. An additional eight hours of available time every day with no connection to...
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“Since you will definitely have to depart without the wealth you have...”
– Atisha - “Advice from Atisha’s Heart”
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“When you are in water,
If you relax, it floats you.
If you struggle, if you...”
– Ariel and Shya Kane, Working on yourself doesn’t work
“It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to...”
– Carl Sagan
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“Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into qualitative...”
– Charles Marx Capital, Vol. 1.
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WatchWhen I saw the part at the end on TV I fell off of my couch in hysterical laughter for 3 minutes.
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“The question is not ‘How Far?’
The question is: do you possess the...”
– Billy Connolly
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“Once is never.”
– German proverb
