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We are all our own divinity in the end.
We can't follow anyone else but ourselves.....
"Two tasks of the beginning of life: to keep reducing your circle, and to keep making sure you’re not hiding somewhere outside it." ~Franz Kafka, Blue Octavo Notebooks
"We should seek neither to escape suffering nor to suffer less, but to remain untainted by suffering." ~Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." ~Rumi
"We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric: giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know." ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters
"It is not asked of us that we never fall over. It is asked of us that we always get up." ~Robert Fripp
Will bring us down to torment in the hell of Unrelenting Pain.
No worldly beast, however wild and crazed,
Could bring upon us such calamities.
If, with mindfulness' rope,
The elephant of mind is tethered all around,
Our fears will come to nothing,
Every virtue drop into our hands."
Shantideva
“Any man who is attached to things of this world is one who lives in ignorance and is being consumed by the snakes of his own passions”
Black Elk
“The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that its center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.”
Black Elk
"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist"
Indira Gandhi
A wise man hears one word and understands two. --Yiddish Proverb
-Zen saying
Yiddish radio announcer
Plato
― Rumi
(very buddhist if you understand swordsmanship and zen)
~Kenny Loggins & Stevie Nicks
"In a heart that is one with nature, though the body contends, there is no violence, and in the heart that is not one with nature, though the body be at rest, there is always violence. Be, therefore, like the prow of a boat. It cleaves water, yet it leaves in its wake water unbroken."
Master PO
Kung Foo 1972
"Be like water"
Upon hearing that question he became enlightened and deleted all but who he really knew.
~Gurney Halleck fictional character from Dune the book
"The big difference between men and women is that when men get older they look distinguished, like Sean Connery. When women get older they look like... Sean Connery.”
- Martin Mull
Anon
“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher.”
― Pema Chödrön
And in that vein, I also remembered this quote as well:
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
― Eleanor Roosevelt
http://lojongmindtraining.com/Commentary.aspx?author=3&proverb=13
The air comes in and goes out like someone passing through a swinging door. If you think, “I breathe,” the “I” is extra. There is no you to say “I.” What we call “I” is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. It just moves; that is all. When your mind is pure and calm enough to follow this movement, there is nothing: no “I,” no world, no mind nor body; just a swinging door.
-Shunryu Suzuki
Namaste
-kashi made up at the spurt of the moment as in just now!!
Chinese Proverb
"No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place."
~ Zen saying
With credit to @lobster !
US Navy SEAL Motto
Old Indian Proverb
after a first glimpse into the truth of Zen, mountains are no longer mountains
and waters are no longer waters; after enlightenment,
mountains are once again mountains and waters once again waters.
-Zen saying
As a result, the samurai is often something of an outsider, a rebellious figure because he refuses to conform to the habits of the day.
(Takahiro Kitamura)
-kashi
After much deliberation he decided to choose from 3 finalists, a Japanese Samurai, an Okinawan Samuai and a Jewish Samurai. The Japanese Samurai had the first opportunity to impress the Emperor, he took a matchbox from his sash, opened it and released a fly. Before the insect had flown a metre he drew his Katana, dissected the fly and re-sheathed it before the fly hit the floor.
The Emperor was impressed and summoned the Okinawan to demonstrate his skills. This Samurai also produced a matchbox, released the fly, drew his sword and cut the fly into 4 equal parts, sheathing his weapon before the parts hit the floor. He was even more impressed and was sure the Jewish Samurai could not improve on this. Sure enough the Jewish Samurai released his fly, his sword hissed and swished several times at the speed of lightning and the fly flew away.
"Ahhhh" said the Emperor, "You did not kill the fly Samurai"
The Jewish Samurai replied...."Circumcision is not meant to kill"
I have heard this story before, the first time was my stepfather told me...hes jewish LMAO!!
A: Just enough so that you don’t step in front of a bus.
-Shunryu Suzuki