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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
The Zen Proverbs and a few quotes I like
“Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”
-Zen proverb
“After enlightenment, the laundry.”
-Zen proverb
“When walking, walk. When eating, eat.”
-Zen proverb
“Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.”
-Zen proverb
The obstacle is the path.
~Zen Proverb
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
~Andre Gide
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.
~Polish Proverb
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
~Barbara Kingsolver
The map is not the territory.
~Alfred Korzybski
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
~Russian Proverb
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.
~Alexander Jodorowsky
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
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
~Leo Rosten
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
~Zen
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
~Dr Seuss
You can't fall off the floor.
~Author Unknown
After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.”
-Zen proverb
“After enlightenment, the laundry.”
-Zen proverb
“When walking, walk. When eating, eat.”
-Zen proverb
“Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.”
-Zen proverb
The obstacle is the path.
~Zen Proverb
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
~Andre Gide
Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.
~Polish Proverb
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
~Barbara Kingsolver
The map is not the territory.
~Alfred Korzybski
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
~Russian Proverb
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.
~Alexander Jodorowsky
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
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
~Leo Rosten
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
~Zen
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
~Dr Seuss
You can't fall off the floor.
~Author Unknown
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor even eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of—wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov’ring there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air....
Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark nor even eagle flew—
And, while with silent lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
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