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"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." ~ Kurt Cobain
:thumbsup:
Lenny Bruce
Together we will say this prayer, and it will be
something beautiful to God.'
Mother Teresa
"Emotional sickness is avoiding reality at any cost. Emotional health is facing reality at any cost." ~ M. Scott Peck
"If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation." ~ Napoleon Hill
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world." ~ Buddha
"The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity." ~ Winston Churchill
"Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blue prints of your ultimate accomplishments." ~ Napoleon Hill
Fear is the mindkiller,
Fear is the little death
That brings total Oblivion
I will permit my fear to pass
Over me and through me
And where it has gone
I will turn the inner eye
Nothing will be there
Only I will remain. -- Bene Gesserit.
-Originally contributed by Buddhafoot, originally in the "Another question on Goals" Thread.
"When I was a child I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I understood as a child.
But when I became a man I put away childish things."
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rain fall soft upon your field.
And, until we meet again, may Love hold you, may Love hold you...
May you be held in the palm of God's hand."
An Irish Blessing
"My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness. These things are very useful in our daily life, and also for the whole of human society these practices can be very important.
"Basically, universal responsibility is the feeling for other people's suffering just as we feel our own. It is the realization that even our own enemy is motivated by the quest for happiness. We must recognize that all beings want the same thing we want. This is the way to achieve a true understanding, unfettered by artificial consideration.
"At the heart of Buddhist philosophy is the notion of compassion for others. It should be noted that the compassion encouraged by Mahayana Buddhism is not the usual love one has for friends or family. The love being advocated here is the kind one can have even for another who has done one harm. Developing a kind heart does not always involve any of the sentimental religiosity normally associated with it. It is not just for people who believe in religions; it is for everyone who considers himself or herself to be a member of the human family, and thus sees things in accordingly large terms.
"The rationale for universal compassion is based on the same principle of spiritual democracy. It is the recognition of the fact that every living being has an equal right to and desire for happiness. The true acceptance of the principle of democracy requires that we think and act in terms of the common good. Compassion and universal responsibility require a commitment to personal sacrifice and the neglect of egotistical desires.
"I believe our every-day experience confirms that a self-centred attitude towards problems can be destructive not only towards society, but to the individual as well. Selfishness does not solve problems for us, it multiplies them. Accepting responsibility and maintaining respect for other will leave all concerned at peace. This is the essence of Mahayana Buddhism."
-Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature, 1625
Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.
-Francis Bacon, 1603
-Saint Francis of Assisi,
"O Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace!
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is discord, harmony.
Where there is doubt, faith.
Where there is despair, hope.
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sorrow, joy.
Oh Divine Master, grant that I may not
so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life."
The exact origin of this beautiful prayer remains unknown, it does not appear in any known writings of St Francis. The first known appearance of this inspiring prayer was in 1912 when it was published in the French magazine La Clochette. http://wahiduddin.net/saint_francis_of_assisi.htm
-Saint Francis of Assisi, The Peace Prayer of Saint Francis (often referred to as "The Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi")
"The things we hate most in others, are the things we detest in ourselves."
WILLIAM BLAKE
OUCH!
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundation under them." ~ Henry David Thoreau
"Beneath heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water. Yet for attacking the solid and strong, nothing can take its place. Therefore the soft can overcome the hard, the weak can overcome the strong, under heaven everyone knows this, yet no one puts it into practice." ~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"The greater the tension between pairs of opposites, the greater the energy that comes from them -- the stronger its constellating power." ~ C. G. Jung
"What is to give light must first endure burning." ~ Victor Frankl
"If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all." ~ Michelangelo
"To love is the great amulet that makes the world a garden." ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
"He who wants to do good knocks at the gate. He who loves finds the gate open." ~ Rabindranath Tagore
"Please call me by my true name so I can wake up, and so the door of my heart can be left open, the door of compassion." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
"Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us." ~ Robert Bly
-Buddha
I guess I haven't changed much because I don't have that many quotations that I live my life by.
Some of my basic quotes that I DO live by:
"Damnit, not <insert thing that is driving you nuts> again."
"You stir shit and it's gonna stink."
"F*** me running!"
"When I WANT your opinion, I'll give it to you."
"Hey, next time you wanna come by and bs with me, ... ... ... don't!"
-bf
-Bodhicaryavatara
life to celebrate." ~ Oprah Winfrey
than if there were thousands
of meaningless words is
one
meaningful
word
that on hearing
brings peace.
-Dhammapada, 8, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
I greet my Mother the Earth and my Father the Sky
I rejoice that I am a part of all this
I am the wind that blows,
The stream that flows,
The earth that turns and the fire that burns.
The spirit of all things is within me, so I rejoice.
Blessed be all beings forever, blessed be.
One to store in memory!
Beautiful!!! I love it! It doesn't get any better than that. I feel very much like that today. There is nothing superfluous in this. It's economy is wonderful and you managed to include pretty much everything. And I really love the way you used the elements with rhyme. I love how you phrased the last line. So unpretentious and simply breathtaking in it's simplicity and honesty. Thank you so much for posting this, Knitwitch. What a good witch you are! I'm constantly amazed. May I have your permission to use this myself?
Love,
Brigid
"President Washington, President Lincoln, President Wilson, President Roosevelt have all authorized electronic surveillance on a far broader scale."
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, testifying before Congress
And, my all time favorite...
"Go **** yourself, Mr. Cheney! Go **** yourself, you ***hole!"
Dr. Ben Marble
If these aren't appropiat for the topic, yell at me and I'll delete em.
You wont be punished for your anger, you'll be punished by your anger. (good to keep in mind when dealing with computers)
edit: from bighappybuddha.com
From Zenmonk_Genryu
He who attends the sick, attends on me. Buddha.
Thanks ZMG! That one will stick with me.
and one from me;
May you live in interesting times.
Old Chinese curse.
Anonymous.
I would like to quote the Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh;
In Buddhism, all views are wrong views.
and I would like to quote the Buddha;
The mind that does not understand is the Buddha.
edit; left the "n" off of the word "in".
edit; In yet another example of how brain dead I am, that second quote was an April fools joke from bighappybuddha.com, those rats. I hate april fools, I always get made a fool. I believe the correct quote is;
The mind that understands is the Buddha.
My post is related to another discussion, and no they are not fatalistic. I think Buddhism is a way to give brotherhood another chance. (I wish I knew a non-gender term for brotherhood, humanity doesn't quite work for me.)
For me, "all views are wrong views", refers to the fact that while some views maybe helpfull or not helpfull on the way to Nirvana, knowing is what will get you there. The wisdom of understanding (knowing) is a beautifull thing. It removes fear. It gives me optimism. It is the teaching of the Buddha.
The Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh and others explain it so much better than I can. I encourage you to seek their wisdom.
edit spelling
You make a good point.
The Venerable TNH does discuss "views" in some of his books.
At first it is kind of daunting to figure out what he's talking about. But, he does go on to explain that "views" are just that... "views".
Just like standing outside and looking at a mountain to the south. Is seeing that mountain really knowing what that mountain is? When we journey to the mountain our view is completely different from our view of the mountain from miles away.
Views are just that... views. They include the perception and deception that go along with it. Truth is not a view. Truth is truth. Unchanged by views, perceptions or illusions.
-bf
Cloud = View
Secret = Truth......
All views through the unenlightened mind are incomplete.
I really like this quote...
I think I like the bogus quote better. To me it means the Buddha doesn't understand, he knows. It reminds me of reading HH the Dalai Lama explain why Monks might meditate among corpses to counter the ego. If you explain something to me and I understand it, great I understand it. But if I take that understanding and meditate on it, and practise it, eventually I wont have to any more because it will just be the way things are. I don't just understand it, I know it.
I know I'm in way over my head.
edit; typo
From BHB again,
A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
-Dogen