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Favourite Quotations
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"The half moon shows a face of plaintive sweetness
Ready and poised to wax or wane,
A fire of pale desire in incompleteness,
Tending to pleasure or to pain.....
Lo! While we gaze, she rolleth on in sweetness -
To perfect loss or perfect gain."
Christina Rossetti
- Lama Govinda
"There is no way to happiness.....................happiness is the way."
Don't be surprised if your handle gets shortened because we're a familiar bunch round here, and take to folks quite quickly.... one of the family, you might say!
Nice to meet you!
Hello, Looks!
I am Adiana and I want to say hello and welcome.
Adiana:wavey:
- Shunryu Suzuki Roshi
- is the quotation you're looking for, ajani-mgo...And you're right, it was Voltaire.
"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."
Which brings to mind -
"The 'man' who does not think much of himself is greater than he believes himself to be."
Audrey Hepburn
Which I completely agree with.
"My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses. "
Audrey Hepburn
Which I am less inclined to agree with.... she don't know me very well....!!
Votaire didn't think much of Helvtius and his comment about the burning is reported to have been "What a fuss about an omelette!"
(Source: Oxford Dictionary of Quotations)
Like the ol' lady said - "I can't die today dearie, i'm still learning too much...!"
"Mind over matter, if you don't mind, it don't matter"
SimonthePilgrim,
From another thread.
Be ye not afraid to show a kindness to strangers
For thereby have some
Entertained Angels unawares."
Hebrews 13: 1 - 2
not on the rudenesses of others,
not on what they've done
or left undone,
but on what you
have & haven't done
yourself.
-Dhammapada, 4, translation by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
(Contributed by Hunt4Life.)
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
--Ancient Fremen Saying
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"--which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
--from "The Wisdom of Muad'Dib"
I've noticed NirvanaNoob hasn't yet contributed to this Thread, so I'm plagiarizing his current signature, in case he changes it and I won't be able to find the first sentence again:
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person will not be found: You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. -Buddha
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. -Buddha
"The most important thing in life is to keep the channels of communication open. We cannot afford to close the doors on anyone permanently." --S. Sarvagatananda
gee whiz
Osca Voegel, on E-Sangha
These from the "songs of Kabir",
4
I. 58. Bag na jag re na jâ
Do not go to the garden of flowers!
O Friend! Go not there;
In your body is the garden of flowers.
Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty.
I. 63. Avadhû, mâyâ tajî na jây
TELL me, Brother, how can I renounce Maya?
When I gave up the tying of ribbons, still I tied my garment about me:
When I gave up tying my garment, still I covered my body in its folds.
So, when I give up passion, I see that anger remains;
And when I renounce anger, greed is with me still;
And when greed is vanquished, pride and vainglory remain;
When the mind is detached and casts Maya away, still it clings to the letter.
Kabîr says, "Listen to me, dear Sadhu! The true path is rarely found."
Enjoy!!! Namaste.
To study the self is to forget the self,
To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things,
To be enlightened by all things is to let drop one's own body and mind,
And those of others.
No trace of Enlightenment remains,
And this traceless Enlightenment continues throughout eternity.
- Ehei Dogen Zenji
Because 99.9% of everything you think,
And everything you do,
Is for your self,
And there isn't one.
Wei Wu Wei
Thanks, Brian! :wavey:
"Embrace adversity with all you have, because it's the best teacher in life!" ~ Selma Hayek
"Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer." ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." ~ Benjamin Disraeli
"Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage -- and give exceeding thanks for the mystery which remains a mystery still -- the veil that hides you from the infinite, which makes it possible for you to believe in what you cannot see." ~
Robert Nathan
"Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement." ~ Foster C. McClellan
"Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets." ~ Clark Moustakas
"Overcoming yourself is better than overcoming a million enemies in battle." ~ Buddha
"Hold on to your power: don't let others squash it. Hold on to your courage: don't let others preach it out of you. Hold on to your independence: don't let others scare it out of you. Author your life without guilt or shame: do not live to please others. Refuse to surrender except to your truest self and your wisest voice." ~ Patricia Lynn Reilly
Steven Weinberg
Hi Federica!!! It's good to see you again!! :wavey: This place has really grown and looks like a lot of fun. :cheer:
my contribution is in my sig.
I'm just starting to read that, I think I'm on the second chapter.
Jason
Hi Jason! :wavey:
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed evelops into habit;
And the habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring form love
Born out of concern for all beings...
As the shadow follows the body,
as we think, so we become."
-from the Dhammapada
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
THIS IS NOT A DRESS REHEARSAL
says it all for me.
"Go towards the hub that is the centre
-but look, there is nothing at the centre and that is precisely why it works!
If you could mold a cup you have to make it hollow:
it is the emptiness within that makes it useful.
In a house or room it is the empty spaces
-the doors, the window- that make it useable.
They all use what they aremade of
to do what they do,
but without their nothingness they would be nothing."
Tao, Chapter 11
How wondeful!
All things are
perfect
exactly as they are!
-the Buddha
How wondeful!
All things are
perfect
exactly as they are!"
-the Buddha
The Buddha said that? How on earth did I miss that one? That's my new favourite. Thanks Sharpiegirl!