Life leads the thoughtful man on a path of many windings. Now the course is checked, now it runs straight again. Here winged thoughts may pour freely forth in words, There the heavy burden of knowledge must be shut away in silence. But when two people are at one in their inmost hearts, They shatter even the strength of iron or of bronze. And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, Their words are sweet and strong, like the fragrance of orchids. —Confucius More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Ignorance has no beginning, but it has an end. There is a beginning but no end to knowledge. —B.K.S. Iyengar Light On Yoga More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded. Only he who knows when he is deluded can free himself from such delusion. The intelligent man is not deluded, because he knows and accepts his ignorance as ignorance, and thereby has genuine knowledge. —Laozi More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do you remember what it was like being born?" "It was like going down the toilet. —Peter Searls, age 4 More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean. —Dave Searls More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For death remembered should be like a mirror Who tells us life's but breath, to trust it error. —William Shakespeare More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't forget to put in your book that this is the first time old Fury ever see whiskey," he says as he gulps down another slug. "Don't forget to put in he can lie, too!" hoots one of his guests. —Bruce Cook Listen to the Blues More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's everything you do And nothing that you did. —Ozark Mountain Daredevils More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When shall we open our minds to the conviction that the ultimate reality of the world is neither matter nor spirit, is no definite thing, but a perspective? God is perspective and hierarchy; Satan's sin was an error of perspective. Now, a perspective is perfected by the multiplication of its viewpoints and the precision with which we react to each one of its planes. The intuition of higher values fertilizes our contact with the lesser ones, and love for what is near and small makes the sublime real and effective within our hearts. —Ortega y Gasset More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once we open ourselves, then we land on what is. —Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The key to the treasure is the treasure itself. —John Barth More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
. . .you are no longer a Buddhist or a Hindu or a Christian or a Jew or a Moslem. You are love, you are truth. And love and truth have no form. They flow into forms. But the word is never the same as that which the word connotes. The word "God" is not God, the word "Mother" is not Mother, the word "Self" is not Self, the word "moment" is not the moment. All of these words are empty. We're playing at the level of intellect. Feeding that thing in us that keeps wanting to understand. And here we are, all the words we've said are gone. Where did they go? Do you remember them all? Empty, empty. If you heard them, you are at this moment empty. You're ready for the next word. And the word will go through you. You don't have to know anything: "that's what's so funny about it. You get so simple. You're empty. You know nothing. You simply are wisdom. Not becoming anything, just being everything. —Ram Dass More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The strangest and most fantastic fact about negative emotions is that people actually worship them. —P.D. Ouspensky More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When bad things happen, that's good. When good things happen, you don't need a philosophy. —Mike Mathers More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't get snot off a suede jacket. —Lenny Bruce More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email