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\"Morning, sickle in hand,
Noon, roaming the forest, gathering wood,
Now the evening moon, quietly shedding light on the path I walk.\"
(Commentary on the Nansen 'sickle' koan)
\"One must ask children and birds how strawberries and cherries taste.\"
-Goethe
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\"People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe - but usually no one else notices.\"
-Brad Warner
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'It is broken,' said the assistant.
'In that case,' said Yang-uan, 'bring me the rhinoceros.'\"
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\"The wise boldly pick up a truth as soon as they hear it. Don't wait for a moment, or you'll lose your head.\"
-Hsueh-dou
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\"How should I know?\" the master replied.
\"But you're a Zen master!\"
\"Yes,\" the Zen master says, \"but not a dead one.\"
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Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted
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Two mice, one white and one black, little by little started to gnaw away the vine. The man saw a luscious strawberry near him. Grasping the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other. How sweet it tasted
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~Hazrat Inayat Kahn
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These are from unknown authors but are worthy of posting...
enjoy....
Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
How can you love God whom you have never seen, and hate your brother you see every day?
Or is that why?
Anything anyone does anywhere affects everything everywhere.
If your aim in life is nothing; you can't miss.
And you can't win
A man with one watch will always know the time.
A man with two watches will always be in doubt.
Don't let your victories go to your head, or your failures go to your heart
The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority.
The test of courage comes when we are in a minority.
Just because someone doesn't love you the way that you want, doesn't mean that they don't love you the best way they know how.
Everyone is crazy, some people just hide it better than others.
Failure is not the worst thing in the world, the very worst is not to try.
Unanswered questions are far less dangerous than unquestioned answers.
Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.
I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
Don't take for granted the things closest to your heart, cling to them as you would your life...For without them, life is meaningless..
The best way to have what you want, is to want what you have. If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always got.
A wise man knows how to laugh at himself. If he cannot, others will.
If you can't control your mouth, there's no way you can hope to control your mind.
In a controversy, the instant we feel anger,
we have already ceased striving for the truth,
and have begun striving for ourselves.
Though you cannot return to the past to make a brand new start,
you can always make a brand new start now, and a brand new ending.
All the darkness in the world could not put out the light of one small candle.
A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be somewhere else
The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
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Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
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Believe it or not, I read this quote elsewhere about half an hour ago.
\"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.\"
— Dr. Seuss
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http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/search?q=Dr.+Seuss
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Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide
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- The Path of Ignorance is Paved with Fear
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fear, when left unchecked, prevents good people from doing great things.
it seems to me that most writers,as well as other artistic types, tend to also be philosophers. i think it has something to do with their sense of aesthetics. often an altered or elevated perception causes one to think deeply on the big questions of life and come up with new perspectives.
Through passion I gain strength and knowledge
Through strength and knowledge I gain victory
Through victory I gain peace and harmony
Through peace and harmony my chains are broken
There is no death, there is the force and it shall free me
Quotes:
Out of darkness, he brings light. Out of hatred, love. Out of dishonor, honor-james allen-
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure-james allen-
The sword is the key to heaven and hell-Mahomet-
The best won victory is that obtained without shedding blood-Count Katsu-
All men's souls are immortal, only the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine -Socrates-
I'm the best at what I do, what I do ain't pretty-wolverine
J.L.Lawson,Master Knight, M.div, Eastern Studies S.I.G. Advisor (Formerly Known as the Buddhist Rite)
Former Masters: GM Kana Seiko Haruki , Br.John
Current Apprentices: Baru
Former Apprentices:Adhara(knight), Zenchi (knight)
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perception is deception
since all our external senses can be fooled if we can perceive something we can be deceived by the very same thing. not to mention that we all perceive things differently
Through passion I gain strength and knowledge
Through strength and knowledge I gain victory
Through victory I gain peace and harmony
Through peace and harmony my chains are broken
There is no death, there is the force and it shall free me
Quotes:
Out of darkness, he brings light. Out of hatred, love. Out of dishonor, honor-james allen-
He who has conquered doubt and fear has conquered failure-james allen-
The sword is the key to heaven and hell-Mahomet-
The best won victory is that obtained without shedding blood-Count Katsu-
All men's souls are immortal, only the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine -Socrates-
I'm the best at what I do, what I do ain't pretty-wolverine
J.L.Lawson,Master Knight, M.div, Eastern Studies S.I.G. Advisor (Formerly Known as the Buddhist Rite)
Former Masters: GM Kana Seiko Haruki , Br.John
Current Apprentices: Baru
Former Apprentices:Adhara(knight), Zenchi (knight)
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