Sayings

Beej

"Don't seek water. Get thirst." -Kabir

Silouan

A Buddhist monk once told me many years ago in broken English, "maybe change your feelings maybe change your karma".

It is a very profound yet simple saying packed into few words that didn't get lost in translation, and it puts "change yourself and you change the world" into perspective.

betaboy

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.
- 1 Corinthians 13

Che

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
Leo Tolstoy

Cory

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
-Jimi Hendrix

Che

"The infinite is in the finite of every instant"
Zen Proverb

robot

"Though the world is torn and shaken
Even if your heart is breakin'
It's waiting for you to awaken
And someday you will-
Learn to be still"

From 'Learn to be still' by the Eagles

Che

"Cleanliness is next to Godliness......and it doesn't cramp your style as much"
George Carlin

Che

"Silence is a source of great strength"
Lao Tzu

betaboy

Every saint has a past; every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde

Che

Albeit in a different place than the saint

Che

“It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life,it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!”
Robert T. Kiyosaki

Che

"The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold"
Aristotle

Che

“Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.”
Jarod Kintz

Jeffrey

When I was a very small boy
Very small boys talked to me
Now that we've grown up together
They're afraid of what they see
That's the price that we all pay
Our valued destiny comes to nothing
I can't tell you where we're going
I guess there's just no way of knowing

the band New Order

Che

“Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean.”
Bob Dylan

Che

“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
Thich Nhat Hanh

Silouan

Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker - Linus.

Che

“You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.”
Gandhi

Citta

" Never oil a camera ".
My Uncle John in 1960 after finding out the truth of the matter the hard way.

Che

Was he trying to get a faster shutter speed

Citta

This was in the days when you had to wind the film on, and apparently it squeaked..... :eek:
I should add that John was a bright guy..an engineer.
But I guess we all have bad ideas from time to time.

Che

Manual film advance, unfortunately I'm old enough to remember them....and older ones :-/
When my grand daughter was a little tyke she asked me if she could use my old telephone and of course I obliged. It was a dial phone and she began pushing the numbers in the holes saying,"it's broken Pa" :bawl:

Che

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night".
Charlie Brown

Che

"Let no man pull you so low as to hate him"
Martin Luther King Jnr.

Che

"Knock on the sky and listen to the sound"
Zen Saying

Che

"You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep"
Navajo Proverb

Che

"If you think you're free, there's no escape possible"
Ram Dass

lobster

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable. — Herbert Procknow

Che

A well balanced person is one with a chip on both shoulders

Che

Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

mfranzdorf

"You can put shit in the oven, but that don't make it cake"
-unknown southern guy.

Che

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought"
Matsuo

Che

Grammar; the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit
Unknown

lobster

“Lead us toward a speech, which is as beautiful as silence, and toward a silence, which is as beautiful as the sweetest and truest of words.”
― Jean-Yves Leloup

Che

"Only in the early morning light of day, and of life, can we see the world without its shadows. Truth requires new beginnings".
~Jeb Dickerson

lobster

“Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - egoism, arrogance, conceit, selfishness, greed, lust, intolerance, anger, lying, cheating, gossiping and slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then you will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.”
― Al-Ghazali

Che

Reminds me of the Native American Elder speaking to his grand son of the two wolves competing for his soul. One was the wolf of the things you mentioned and the other was the wolf of compassion, understanding and love. The grand son asked which wolf would win the fight, the Elder said..... "the one you feed"

Che

"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple"
~Dr Seuss

searching_samsara

It's all a lanaguage game ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

riverflow

Forgive me, I can no longer resist... Here are just a *few* passages from the ever-quotable Seneca ... I have these and many more that I copied into a Word document that I keep on my laptop:

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
~ Seneca, Epistulae, II

He that owns himself has lost nothing.
~ Seneca, Epistulae, XLIII

Why do you wait? Wisdom comes haphazard to no man. Money will come of its own accord; titles will be given to you; influence and authority will perhaps be thrust upon you; but virtue will not fall upon you by chance.
~ Seneca, Epistulae, LXXVI

To have may be taken from us, to have had, never.
~ Seneca, Epistulae, XCVIII

Life is neither a Good nor an Evil; it is simply the place where good and evil exist.
~ Seneca, Epistulae, XCIX

[N]othing is heavy if one accepts it with a light heart.
~ Seneca, Epistulae, CXXIII

[N]o one should be angry at the mistakes of men… That you may not be angry with individuals, you must forgive mankind at large, you must grant indulgence to the human race.
~ Seneca, De Ira, Book I

How much better it is to heal than to avenge an injury! Vengeance consumes much time, and it exposes the doer to many injuries while he smarts from one; our anger always lasts longer than the hurt. How much better it is to take the opposite course and not to match fault with fault.
~ Seneca, De Ira, Book III

I fancy that many men would have arrived at wisdom if they had not fancied that they had already arrived… Who dares to tell himself the truth?
~ Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi

The service of a good citizen is never useless; by being heard and seen, by his expression, by his gesture, by his silent stubbornness, and by his very walk he helps. ~ Seneca, De Tranquillitate Animi

[N]ot the status, but the intention, of the one who bestows is what counts. Virtue closes the door to no man; it is open to all, admits all, invites all, the freeborn and the freedman, the slave and the king, and the exile; neither family nor fortune determines its choice—it is satisfied with the naked human being.
~ Seneca, De Beneficiis, Book III

Che

Should we forgive a full moon for rising on a glassy ocean?
Thank you for those inspirational Seneca quotes @riverflow.

Jeffrey

Lack of understanding
becomes misunderstanding
when there is speculation
instead of investigation.

~stonepeace

I thought this is relevant to this forum if only in my person and posts.

Jeffrey

What pride should we have,
when we might be humbled
by great suffering at any time,
when our negative karma ripens?

~stonepeace

riverflow

"Without music, life would be a mistake." ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

I'd also say the same is true of poetry.

Che

"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts"
Charles Dickens

Jeffrey

But do not ask me where I am going as I travel in this limitless world, where every step I take is my home...

~ Dogen ~

Jeffrey

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James

riverflow

Jeffrey said:

But do not ask me where I am going as I travel in this limitless world, where every step I take is my home...

~ Dogen ~

Oh, yes! That is from one of his poems! I had forgotten about this poem... Thank you!

Che

"The tighter you squeeze, the less you have"
Zen Saying