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 This
collection of witty wisdom quotes (aprox. 620 quotes) is the result of
working through 6 major quotes books, books of my personal library, many
comprehensive internet collections, by surfing private homepages, or using
some of my own thoughts and quotes. Alltogether a first harvest, having
read some 60,000 Western and Eastern quotes. My only criteria were that
the quote had to make me smile, wow or thoughtful. I avoided those with
too much superficial holiness and moral doctrine. Hope you enjoy what I've
found. For an easier navigation I sorted the quotes by keywords, sub-categories
('heavy weights',.'light
weights',.'own
quotes',.'quotes
entry')) and even a kind of personal rating. You are actually on the
'all
quotes on one page'. The quotes pages will
be extended every couple of months. For returning visitors we marked newly
added quotes with (n).and
the date behind. So have a look from time to time to get some new mind
food.
- Feel invited to copy your favorite quotes,
but don't republish the whole collection :-) |
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"A proverb is a short sentence based on
long experience.".-
Miguel de Cervantes
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also sorted under Heavy Weights /.l.=
also sorted under Light Weights /.t.=
also sorted under Personal Quotes & Thoughts / n.=
newly added (with date in brackets)./.+.=
favorite quote
- The subdivision in 'heavy' and 'light' shouldn't
be taken too seriously. The criteria are completely subjective. At the
end they are either all 'heavy weights', all 'light weights' or sometimes
this and sometimes that. It completely depends on the circumstances and
where one stands. (That's wisdom already)
- In case you find any double entries
please send us a mail. |
Accordance
"When your intent is in accordance with the Universe, things start
happening.".(h).(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Act
"However many holy words you read, how many you speak, what good will
they do you if you do not act upon them?".(l).(n).9-00
- The Buddha |
Action
"True strength is the flower of Wisdom, but its seed is action.".
(l).(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Activist
"The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist
is the man who cleans up the river." (l)
- Ross Perot |
Admit
"To admit you don't know everything is the first step on the road to
wisdom." (l)
- author unknown |
Adults
"When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults." (l)
- Brian Aldiss |
Adventure
"Adventure is not outside a man, it is within." (l).+
- David Grayson |
Aging
"I'm not aging. I'm ripening to perfection." +.(h).(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Agreement
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong." (l)
- Oscar Wilde |
Alone
"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone
can be." (l).+
- Ellen Burstyn |
Alone
"When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value
the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves." (l).+
- Eda LeShan |
Alone
"Spend some time alone every day.".(l).(n).9-00
- The Dalai Lama |
Alternative Web
"The only alternative to prevent the net from becoming a mere market
place is to create alternative websites, sharing and exchanging one's personal
thoughts and insights. There are millions of spiritual seekers and religious
people all over the world. Imagine the changes and possibilities if all
of them would build their own sites! Start now!".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Amulet's...
"Don't build your spiritual power on things like amulet's, robes and
dressings, ritual objects or other materialized items. Using them without
attachment can be of temporarily help. But entering the bardo (after-death
experience) we are all naked. No amulet at hand :-).(t).(h).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Anger
"Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing
it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." (l)
- The Buddha |
Anger
"If deeply based in wisdom, even anger is allowed.".(t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Antidote's
"The antidote's of spirituality are dogma and feelings of superiority.".(t).(h).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Appearances
"Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden." +.(h).(n).9-00
- Anaxagoras |
Arriving
"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
(h)
- Lao Tzu |
Art
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection." (l)
- Michelangelo |
Art
"Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious." (l).+
- Jean Cocteau |
Art
" What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something
which is only related to objects, and not to individuals, or to life. That
art is something which is specialized or which is done by experts who artists.
But couldn't everyone's life become a work of art? Why should the lamp
or the house be an art object, but not your life?" (l)
- Michael Foucault |
Art
"The high mission of any art is, by its illusions, to foreshadow a
higher universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time into the thought
of eternity.".(h).(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Artificial
"Our artificial man-made 'reality' is seen more and more as 'natural'.
Will what we still call natural once be understood as artificial?.(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Astrology
"We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage
years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which
we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more." (h).+
- Carl Gustav Jung |
Astrology
"The stars incline, but do not impel." (h)
- Robert Heinlein |
Atheism
"Atheism is a non-prophet organization." (l).+
- author unknown |
Attention
"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention.".(h).(n).9-00
- Richard Moss |
Authority
"Often it's better to stay in the background. Sometimes it's one's
duty to show some spiritual pride. But a spiritual authority needs neither
this nor that. He simply is.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Awaken
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ...
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens." (h).+
- author unknown |
Awareness
"Life is so short we must move very slowly." (h).+
- Thai saying |
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Backwards
"Don't go backwards, you have already been there.".(l).(n)
9-00
- Ray Charles |
Balance
"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding
on." (l)
- Havelock Ellis |
Beauty
"Beauty is not caused. It is." (h).+
- Emily Dickinson |
Beauty
"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal." (h)
- Dante A. |
Beauty
"Touched by beauty we enter the forefields of
enlightenment. Flying higher and higher one may discover that there is
nothing else but beauty. Isn't it a pity that we're not yet ready to keep
it in permanent view!" (t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Beauty
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." (h).+
- Confucius |
Beauty
"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibration
of beauty." (l)
- Christopher Morley |
Beauty
"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." (l)
- Franz Kafka |
Beauty
"There is beauty everywhere. Just put your heart into your eyes.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Begin
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." (l).+
- Chinese Proverb |
Being
"A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing
the ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the
dimension of being." (h)
- Osho |
Beliefs
"Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning.
A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing..." +.(h).(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Believe
"Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe
what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But
whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive
to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe
and cling to, and take it as your guide." (h)
- The Buddha |
Believe
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not
believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do
not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious
books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers
and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed
down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you
find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and
benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it." (l)
- The Buddha |
Believe
"When you are educated, you'll believe only half of what you hear.
When you're intelligent, you know which half.".(l).(n).9-00
- Jerome Perryman |
Beyond
"If you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. And likewise,
if you would know the reality of Nature, you must destroy the appearance,
and the further you go beyond the appearance the nearer you will be to
the essence." (h)
- Meister Eckhart |
Beyond Polarity
"When there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is
called the still-point of the Tao. At the still point in the center of
the circle one can see the infinite in all things." (h).+
- Chuang Tzu |
Big Song
"One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes
in a great big song!".(l).(n).9-00
- Woody Guthrie |
Body
"Call our physical body a treasure or a prison.
At the end it's just a costume borrowed for a fraction of time. What costume
will karma choose next?" (t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Books
"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can
get through, but rather how many can get through to you.".(l).(n).9-00
- Mortimer J. Adler |
Books
"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food
and clothes.".(l).(n).9-00
- Erasmus |
Bow
"A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha.".(h).(n).9-00
- Suzuki Roshi |
Brain
"A piece of brain the size of a grain of rice
contains 1 million nerve cells, 10 billion synapses and 20 MILES of axons.
Each of these nerve cells both 'hears from' and 'talks to' 10,000 other
cells." (l)
- Newsletter on Advances in Brain
Research, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies |
Brainpower
"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power."
(l)
- Barbara Jordan |
Buddha by Nature
"You are all the Buddha." (h).+
- Last words of The Buddha |
Buddhism
"If you have no feelings about worldly things, they are all Buddhism;
if you have feelings about Buddhism, it is a worldly thing." (l)
- Zen Saying |
Buddhist
"Don't be a Buddhist - be a Buddha!" (l).+
- author unknown |
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Care
"Developing a global awareness and care is great. Next step should
be a galactic or even cosmic awareness and care. From there it's just a
little step to develope a Buddha's mind of awareness and care.".(t).(h).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Caring
"Caring for others is great. Sometimes not-caring can also be a kind
of care.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Cause & Effect
"What you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you
do now." (h).+
- The Buddha |
Cause & Effect
"The future depends on what we do in the present." (h)
- Mahatma Gandhi |
Cause & Effect
"Most people know about cause and effect, but
just few handle this wisely and act accordingly." (t).(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Challenge
"Life is a constant challenge to know oneself.".(l).(n).9-00
- Sri Rajneesh, AKA Osho |
Change
"Change your thoughts and you change your world." (h)
- Norman Vincent Peale |
Change
"The most unchangeable truth is change." (t).(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Change
"Change is not merely necessary to life. It is life." (l)
- Alvin Toffler |
Change
"Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing
himself." (h).+
- Leo Tolstoy |
Change
"Not everything you face in life can be changed, but you can change
nothing until you have faced it." (l)
- author unknown |
Change
"We are tomorrow's past." (l).+
- Mary Webb |
Change
"In wisdom we acknowledge that everything changes. What is born will
die. What dies nourishes life in its many forms.".(h).(n).9-00
- Patricia Lynn Reilly |
Check
"When you check your own mind properly, you stop blaming others for
your problems.".(l).(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Children
"Some children are wiser than adults.".(l).(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Child Mind
"Great is the man who does not lose his child mind." (l).+
- Meng-Tse |
Church
"Every day people are straying away from church and going back to God."
(l)
- Lenny Bruce |
Cleverness
"Cleverness is not wisdom." (l)
- Euripides |
Clinging
"Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage,
even to the idea of enlightenment." (h)
- Osho |
Closed Mind
"A closed mind is like a closed book; just a block of wood." (l)
- Chinese Proverb |
Cold
"Only when the cold sets in do you notice the pines and cypresses turning
green.".(l).(n).9-00
- Chinese Saying |
Color
"I am color." (h)
- Paul Klee |
Comedy
"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." (l).+
- Peter Ustinov |
Common Sense
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even
if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own
common sense." (l).+
- The Buddha |
Compassion
"A human being is a part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings
as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion of his
consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us to our
personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our
task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of compassion
to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty." (h)
- Albert Einstein |
Compassion
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man
will not himself find peace." (h).+
- Albert Schweitzer |
Compassion
"To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion." (l)
- Albert Camus |
Compassion
"Real compassion does not arise from an over-emotional
gut blocking the brain, but from a clean clear mind melting into the heart."
(t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Concept
"There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept." (l).+
- Ansel Adams |
Conquer
"You never conquer a mountain. You stand on the summit a few moments;
then the wind blows your footprints away." (l)
- Arlene Blum |
Consciousness
"The mind is an iceberg - it floats with only one-seventh of its bulk
above water." (l)
- Sigmund Freud |
Conservative
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who refuses to
walk forward.".(l).(n).9-00
- Franklin D. Roosevelt |
Contemplation
"All things considered, wisdom requires not only the investigation
of many things, but contemplation of the mystery." (h)
- Jeremy Narby |
Continuity
"Today is yesterday's pupil." (l)
- Benjamin Franklin |
Convention
"People only see what they are prepared to see." (l)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Convention
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend." (h)
- Henri Bergson |
Count
"One should count each day a separate life.".(h).(n).9-00
- Seneca |
Course
"We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights
of every passing ship." (l)
- Omar N. Bradley |
Crazy Wisdom
"There was never a genius without a tincture of madness." (l)
- Aristotle |
Creativity
"The best way to predict your future is to create it." (l).+
- Peter Drucker |
Creativeness
"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to
be born before one dies.".(h).(n).9-00
- Erich Fromm |
Criticize
"Don't criticize what you can't understand." +.(l).(n).9-00
- Bob Dylan |
Cultivation
"Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body." (l)
- Cicero |
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Dance
"My life is a my song; I choose to dance to it with Light, Laughter
and Love.".(l).(n).9-00
- Kathryn~WindWillow |
Dance
"Love is the music of the Universe ... just dance.".(l).(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Dare
"To dare is to lose your "foothold" for a moment. Not to dare is to
lose yourself.".(l).(n).9-00
- Sören Kierkegaard |
Dark
"An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because
people refuse to see it." (h).+
- James A. Michener |
Darkness
"You live through the darkness from what you learned in the light."
(h)
- Hope MacDonald |
Dark/Light
"If we are unwilling to be aware of the dark, we cannot see the light."
(h)
- John Cowan |
Death
"People sleep, and when they die, they awake." (h).+
- Mohammed |
Death
"...death is only an horizon, and an horizon is only the limit of our
sight. Open our eyes to see more clearly..." (h).+
- William Penn |
Death
"For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force.
The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and
study of death." (h)
- E. Kübler-Ross |
Death
"Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic." (l).+
- W H Auden |
Death
"There is but one way to be born but a hundred
ways to die." (l)
- Chinese proverb |
Death
"It helps a lot looking at life from the perspective
of one's certain death. Try to visualize yourself at the hour of death.
Just a couple of minutes each day. It's basic Buddhist beginners practice."
(t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Death/Awakening
"We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a
troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death." (h)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Death/Birth
"After your death you will be what you were before your birth." (h)
- Arthur Schopenhauer |
Dependent Arising
"All things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes
and conditions. Nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in relation
to everything else." (h).+
- The Buddha |
Dependent Arising
"Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there
are no phenomena which are not void.".(h).(n).9-00
- Nagarjuna |
Depth
"It is not length of life, but depth of life.".(l).(n)
9-00
- Ralph Emerson |
Describing
"Just as the mute person has trouble describing the taste of sugar,
we have trouble describing the nature of mind.".(h).(n).9-00
- Kalu Rinpoche |
Desires
"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires." (h).+
- Seneca |
Detail
"Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence
will come." (l).+
- Perry Paxton |
Different
"People have one thing in common: they are all different." (l).+
- Robert Zend |
Direction
"The mind's direction is more important than its progress.".(h).(n).9-00
- Joseph Joubert |
Discover
"Your work is to discover and then with all your heart to give yourself
to it.".(l).(n).9-00
- The Buddha |
Discovery
"The real voyage of discovery lies not in finding new lands, but in
seeing with new eyes".(l).(n)
9-00
- Marcel Proust |
Discrepancy
"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius
and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less
talent might not have been better." +.(l).(n).9-00
- C. G. Jung |
DNA
".....there are approximately 125 billion miles
of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around
the earth 5 million times." (l)
- Jeremy Narby |
Doing
"To do is to be."
- Socrates
"To be is to do."
- Plato
"The way to do is to be." (h).+
- Lao-Tzu |
Double Truth
"The double truth of feeling totally unimportant and at the same time
of uppermost importance is of great help in mastering life in it's various
aspects.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Doubt
"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can
enter into the temple of wisdom." (h).+
- Colton |
Doubt
"Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith." (h)
- Paul Johannes Tillich |
Doubt
"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters."
(h).+
- Isaac Bashevis |
Dragons
"Dragons have a certain high ranking popularity
or fascination in the net. This may reflect what's needed and admired most.
Dragons stand for universal power, magical knowledge & wisdom. They
also act as gatekeepers to the treasures of our (collective) sub-consciousness.
What a dawning horizon for a new age!"
(t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Dream
"A Dream Is A Wish That Our Heart Makes." (l)
- author unknown |
Dream/Reality
"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?"
(h).+
- George Moore |
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Earth
"What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men
set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth." (h).+
- Norman Cousins |
Education
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open mind.".(l).(n).9-00
- Malcolm S. Forbes |
Education
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open mind.".(l).(n).9-00
- Malcolm S. Forbes |
Education
"We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've
got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go." +.(l).(n).9-00
- Timothy Leary |
Egg
"A hen is just an egg's way of making another egg.".(l).(n).9-00
- Samuel Butler |
Ego
"The ego is the ugly troll that lives underneath the bridge between
your mind and your heart." (h).+
- Dennis Miller |
Ego
"Big egos are big shields for lots of empty space." (l).+
- Diana Black |
Ego
"The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological
tests.".(l).(n)
9-00
- Alan Watts |
Ego-Transcendence
"What we call 'I' is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale
and when we exhale. When your mind is... calm enough to follow this movement,
there is nothing, no world, no mind nor body, just a swinging door." (h)
- Pema Chodron |
Empty
"The empty vessel makes the greatest sound." (h).+
- author unknown |
Emptiness
"Everything is emptiness and illusion. Emptiness
and illusion is everything." (t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Encouragement
"Sometimes too much encouragement by others or towards others can bring
creativity and spiritual development to a stand still.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
End
"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the Horizon as the
end of the ocean." +.(h).(n)
9-00
- David Searls |
Enlighten
"You cannot enlighten the unconscious." (l)
- Robert Mellott |
Enlightenment
"There are many paths to enlightenment. Be sure to take one with a
heart." (l)
- Lao Tzu |
Enlightenment
"To study the Buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is
to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten
thousand things". (h).+
- Dogen Lenji |
Enlightenment
"Enlightenment cannot be described, only experienced." (h)
- author unknown |
Enlightenment
"There are three major dangers which come with
enlightenment: stagnation by bathing in holiness, wrong identifications,
and the surpressing or doubting of the importance of this self-empowerment."
(t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Enlightenment
"You may have expected that enlightenment would come Zap! instantaneous
and permanent. This is unlikely. After the first "ah ha" experience, it
can be thought of as the thinning of a layer of clouds..." (h)
- Ram Dass |
Enlightenment/Ego
"The attainment of enlightenment from ego’s point of view is extreme
death." (h).+
- Chögyam Trungpa |
Essential
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential
is invisable to the eye." (l)
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Establishment
"The danger of psychedelic drugs, the danger of mind-opening, the danger
of consciousness expansion, the danger of inner discovery is a danger to
the establishment." (l).+
- Timothy Leary |
Eternity
"Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there
is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death."
(h)
- The Buddha |
Evolution
"The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of
mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual."
(h)
- C.G. Jung |
Examine
"Examine your own mental attitudes. Become your own therapist.".(l).(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Examination
"The unexamined life is not worth living." (h)
- Plato |
Existence
"It's not the 'be or not to be' which is of any
question. It's the 'be and not to be' which has to be digested." (t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Experience
"Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible
to others." (h)
- William O. Douglas |
Experience
"Even a high experience is worth nothing, when
not polished and kept warm." (t).(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Experience
"What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something
out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never
has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else." (h)
- Joseph Campell |
Experience
"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
(l)
- Emily Dickinson |
Experience
"Knock on the sky and listen to the sound!" (h).+
- Zen Saying |
Experience
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection which is
noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience,
which is the bitterest." (l)
- Confucius |
Experience
"Wisdom can be encreased by books and teachings. But lasting wisdom
is rooted in mind research and experience.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Explore
"We shall not cease from exploration - And the end of all our exploring
- Will be to arrive where we started - And know the place for the first
time." (h)
- T. S. Eliot |
Exploration
"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of
the shore for a very long time." (l).+
- André Gide |
Expression
"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision
and its ultimate expression." (l)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer |
Eye Contact
"A tantric unity caused by a short eye-contact can have a higher effect
and potential on one's mind than a long lasting love affair or partnership.".(t).(h).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Eye for Eye
"An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind." (l).+
- Mahatma Gandhi |
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Face Yourself
"No matter where you go, there you are." (l).+
- Jackie Mason |
Failure
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
We get very little wisdom from success, you know." +.(l).(n).9-00
- William Saroyan |
Faith
"Much knowledge of divine things is lost to us through want of faith."
(l).+
- Heraclitus |
Fantasy
"Fantasy is the ability to think in pictures.".(h).(n).9-00
- Mari |
Fear
"Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings,
loses all fear." (h).+
- The Upanishads |
Fear
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." (l)
- Marie Curie |
Fears
"The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them."
(l)
- Alfred Hitchcock |
Fear
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom." (h)
- Bertrand Russell |
Fear
"Fear always springs from ignorance." (h)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Fear
"Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed." +.(l).(n)
9-00
- Michael Pritchard |
Fears
"Fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. In becoming
good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is the fear
of loneliness." (h)
- Krishnamurti |
Flexibility
"Man cannot change the direction of the wind, but he can adjust the
sails." (h)
- author unknown |
Flower
"Some say the Buddha's greatest sermon was his silent, wordless one:
He simply held up a flower and looked at his followers. Those who smiled,
understood." (h).+
- author unknown |
Flowering
"Many like to flower. Few allow time for fruiting.
Only wise men wait to offer themselves as seeds for others." (t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Flying
"Before you can learn to fly, you must first learn to walk. You cannot
fly into flying." (h)
- author unknown |
Forget
"Forget injuries, Never forget kindnesses." (l)
- author unknown |
Free
"The best things in life are free, but it costs alot to find that out."
(l).+
- author unknown |
Freedom
"Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions."
(l)
- Clarance Darrow |
Free yourself
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free
our minds." (h)
- Bob Marley |
Friends
"There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of
ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self." (h)
- Balthasar Gracian |
Friends
"Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher."
(l).+
- Oprah Winfrey |
Friendship
"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I
may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." (l)
- Albert Camus |
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Galaxy
"From far away our galaxy may have the importance
of a neutrino." (t).(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Generosity
"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never
find it out." (l)
- author unknown |
Genius
"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you
in your heart is true for all men - that is genius." (h)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Genius
"Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its
roof.".(h).(n).9-00
- Chang Ch'ao |
Getting
"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke
of luck." +.(l).(n).9-00
- The Dalai Lama (?) |
Giving
"Those who give only when asked have already waited too long." (l)
- author unknown |
Giving
"To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give." (h).+
- Taisen Deshimaru |
Giving
"Giving without expectations not just brings
highest joys but finds always a friendly karmic echo." (t).(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Good
"Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate
result of your life." (l)
- Grenville Kleiser |
Good
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for
reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.".(h).(n).9-00
- Albert Einstein |
Goodness
"Do not disregard the accumulation of goodness, saying, 'This will
come to nothing.' By the gradual falling of raindrops, a jar is filled.".(l).(n).9-00
- The Buddha |
Good Ideas
"Good ideas is like mushrooms, where you find one you often find more.".(l).(n).9-00
- Hans Carossa |
Good Pilot
"The mind is very powerful. Therefore, it requires firm guidance. A
powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be
the wisdom that understands its nature.".(h).(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Growth
"Don't go through life, GROW through life." (l).+
- Eric Butterworth |
Growth
"Growth begins when we start to accept our own
weakness." (l)
- Jean Vanier |
Growth
"A good environment for a common spiritual growth
and a lasting friendship is an erotic tension without grasping for fulfillment."
(t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
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Happiness
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the
life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by
being shared." (l)
- The Buddha |
Happiness
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." (l)
- The Dalai Lama |
Happiness
"Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination." (l)
- Roy M. Goodman |
Happiness
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just
be happy." (l).+
- author unknown |
Happiness
"Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the
rain." (l).+
- author unknown |
Happiness
"Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way." (l)
- Sophocles |
Happiness
"Happiness is not a place - it is a direction." (l)
- Bill Sands |
Happiness
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it
under his feet." +.(l).(n).9-00
- James Oppenheim |
Happiness
"Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness." (h).+
- Chuang-Tse |
Hate
"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of
yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.".(h).(n).9-00
- Herman Hesse |
Head
"Use your head, or somebody else might.".(l).(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Heart
"The head doesn't hear unless the heart desires to listen." (h)
- author unknown |
Heart
"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or
even touched. They must be felt with the heart." (l)
- Helen Keller |
Heart
"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a
touch that never hurts.".(l).(n).9-00
- Charles Dickens |
Heart/Mind
"The heart has its reasons that the mind knows nothing of." (h)
- Blaise Pascal |
Heaven
"What power would hell have if those imprisoned there could not dream
of heaven?" (h)
- author unknown |
Helping
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t
help them, at least don’t hurt them." (l).+
- The Dalai Lama |
Hidden
"Anything visible is a mask, anything hidden is real." (h).+
- author unknown |
History
"We learn from history that we don't learn anything from history."
+.(l).(n).9-00
- Bernard Shaw |
Home
"Home is not where you live, it's where people understands you." +.(l).(n).9-00
- Chr. Morgenstern |
Home
"Expanding and experiencing the mind is like coming home, while the
former 'home' becomes more and more unimportant.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Horoscope
"The horoscope is a field of imagination and reflection not only through
which we see ourselves, but by which we see through ourselves to the archetypal
ground that has created this dance we call life." +.(h).(n).9-00
- Charles Ponce |
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Ideals
"The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given
me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and
truth." (l).+
- Albert Einstein |
Ideals
"Ideals are like stars. We never reach them but, like the mariners
on the sea, we chart our course by them." (l)
- Carl Schurz |
Ideals
"Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars."(l).+
- Les Brown |
Ideals
"We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
(l)
- Oscar Wilde |
Ignorance
"The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant." (h)
- Lord David Cecil |
Ignorance
"The only thing that costs more money than education is ignorance."
(l).+
- author unknown |
Ignorance
"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." (l)
- Derek Bok |
Ignorance
"It may sound paradoxical, but I'm quite sure
that hate and ignorance are the father and mother of enlightenment." (t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Ignorance
"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star."
(h)
- Confucius |
Illusion
"We practise illusory practise in an illusory way, in order to reach
illusory enlightenment and deliver illusory beings from suffering." (h).+
- Khyungpo Naljyor, Foundation
for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition |
Illusion
"All that we see or seen is but a dream within a dream." (h).+
- Edgar Allan Poe |
Illusion
"Time, space, the whole universe - just an illusion!
Often said, philosophically verifiable, even scientifically explainable.
It's the 'just' which makes the honest mind go crazy and the ego go berserk."
(t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Imagination
"Imagination is more important than knowledge; for knowledge is limited
while imagination embraces the entire world." (h)
- author unknown |
Imagination
"Our imagination flies; we are its shadow on the earth." (h)
- Vladimir Nabokov |
Imagination
"Imagination arises in between our eyebrows,
not from the intellect." (t).(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Imagination
"The man who has no imagination has no wings." (l).+
- Muhammad Ali |
Imagination
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
(h)
- Mark Twain |
Imagination
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." +.(l).(n).9-00
- Jules de Gaultier |
Imagination
"The world is but a canvas to the imagination.".(h).(n).9-00
- Henry David Thoreau |
Impermanence
"We completely deny the existence of a self-existent I, or a permanent,
independent soul. Every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent: changing,
changing, changing... ".(h).(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Impossible
"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them
into the impossible.".(h).(n).9-00
- Arthur C. Clarke |
Impossible
"We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.".(l).(n).9-00
- Ray Bradbury |
Infinite
"If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear
to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees
all things through narrow chinks of his cavern." (h)
- William Blake |
Infinity
"I am home, feeling so far away." (h)
- Enya |
Infinite Library
"The infinite library of the universe is in your mind." (h).+
- Swami Vivekananda |
Inferior
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your
consent." (l)
- Eleanor Roosevelt |
Ignorance
"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.".(h).(n).9-00
- Louis D. Brandeis |
Innovative
"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your
mind, but how to get old ones out." +.(l).(n).9-00
- Dee Hock |
Insanity
"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.".(h).(n).9-00
- R. D. Laing |
Inside
"We carry with us the wonders we seek without us." (h).+
- Sir Thomas Browne |
Insight
"Hindsight is good, foresight is better, but insight is the best of
all." (l)
- author unknown |
Insight
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." (l).+
- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Insignificant
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum
star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe
in which there are far more galaxies than people." +.(l).(n).9-00
- Carl Sagan |
Inspiration
"Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There
is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.".(l).(n).9-00
- Johann G. von Herder |
Instinct
"Instinct is the nose of the mind." (h).+
- Madame De Girardin |
Integrety
"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.".(l).(n).9-00
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Intellect
"There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually
and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.".(l).(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Interdependence
"All phenomena exist interdependently. Their being is dependent on
their parts and attributes. A flower, a tree, or a human being all exist
interdependently, relying on their causes, circumstances, attributes and
parts. Our happiness, suffering, growth and degeneration all exist on the
basis of an interdependent relationship of causes and circumstances.".(h).(n).9-00
- Geshe Rabten |
Internet
"The Internet is like a living window into human consciousness and
perhaps even to the divine... if we can attune to it... we might well contribute
to a glittering awakening on a cosmic level. We can be on-line with ourselves
and the world all the time!" (l)
- John Osborne |
Intuition
"The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful
servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten
the gift." (l)
- Albert Einstein |
Intuition
"Intuition is the voice of the spirit within you." (l)
- Morgan Llewllyn |
Journey
"The perfect journey is circular - the joy of departure and the joy
of return." (l)
- Dino Basili |
Judgment
"There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment."
(l).+
- Malcolm Hein |
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Karma
"One action produces a reaction; that is karma." +.(h).(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Karmic Awareness
"All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today." (h).+
- author unknown |
Keep Moving
"Even if your on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there" (l)
- Will Rogers |
Kindness
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this
is the beginning of wisdom." (h)
- Theodore I. Rubin |
Kindness
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates
profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." (l)
- Lao Tzu |
Kindness
"Life is too short not to be kind to others." (l).+
- author unknown |
Kindness
"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." (l)
- author unknown |
Kindness
"Kindness gives birth to kindness." (l).+
- Sophocles |
Kindness
"Kindness is a language the deaf can hear and the dumb can understand."
(l)
- Paramahansa Yogananda |
Kindness
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly
endless." (l)
- author unknown |
Kindness
"Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together."
(l)
- J. W. von Goethe |
Kindness
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
(l)
- Seneca |
Kindness
"Kindness arises by standing apart from oneself
and recognizing all beings as companions on the arduous travel towards
highest perfection." (t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Kindness
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind.
The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." (l)
- Henry James |
Knowing
"A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything." +.(l).(n).9-00
- African Proverb |
Knowledge
"The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds."
(l).+
- John F. Kennedy |
Knowledge
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion
of knowledge.".(h).(n).9-00
- Daniel J. Boorstin |
Knowledge/Wisdom
"...Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes
by putting things together..." (h).+
- John Morrison |
Knowledge/Wisdom
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the
other helps you make a life." (l).+
- Sandra Carey |
Knowledge/Wisdom
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege
of wisdom to listen." (l)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Knowing
"He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool - Avoid
him.
He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep - Waken him.
He who knows not and knows that he knows not wants beating - Beat him.
He who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man - Know him." (h)
- author unknown |
Knowing Better
"Don't blow up your ego by getting addicted to knowing everything better.
Even if you do it's often wiser to keep your mouth shut and give others
the chance and time to find things out by themselves.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
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Language
"Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear." (h)
- Nicole Brossard |
Laughter
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." (l)
- Victor Borge |
Learning
"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant
and kindness from the unkind." (l)
- Kahlil Gibran |
Lesson
"When you lose, don't lose the lesson." +.(l).(n).9-00
- The Dalai Lama |
Let go
"Breathe when you breathe. Walk where you walk. Talk when you talk.
Cry when you cry. Die when you die. Let go when you let go..." (l)
- Allen Ginsberg |
Let go
"Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself."
(l)
- Zen saying |
Let go
"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river
flows on." (h)
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Letting Go
"It is all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself
back.".(l).(n).9-00
- Mick Jagger |
Life
"Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it." (h).+
- author unknown |
Life
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait
so long to begin it." (l)
- author unknown |
Life
"Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.".(h).(n).9-00
- Van Kaam |
Life
"Do you believe in life before death?".(l).(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Life
"Don't take life too serious. You'll never escape it alive anyway."
(l)
- Elbert Hubbard |
Life
"There is nothing like dead matter or empty space.
Everything is full of light, energy, change, spirit and inter-communication.".(t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Life
"Life is not about what you've gained, but what you've done.....".(l).(n).9-00
- Wong Ka Kui |
Life
"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."
(l)
- author unknown |
Life
"Life is a Tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think."
+.(l).(n).9-00
- Jean de la Brvyere |
Life
"Life is but a journey; death is returning home.".(h)
- Chinese proverb |
Light
"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when
the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed
ONLY if there is a light from within.".(h).(n).9-00
- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross |
Live!
"All of us have life; few of us have an idea of it." (l)
- J. W. von Goethe |
Light/Hope
"When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." (l)
- Charles A. Beard |
Limits of Logic
"You can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples
are in the seed." (l).+
- Ken Kesey |
Listen
"The Universe has many voices. Just listen.".(l).(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Little Things
"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little
things, I am tempted to think, there are no little things." (h)
- Bruce Barton |
Living
"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a
little flower." (l)
- Hans Christian Anderson |
Logic
"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit." (h).+
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Long Before
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." +.(h).(n).9-00
- Kahlil Gibran |
Lost Self
"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning
for union with one's lost self.".(h).(n).9-00
- Brendan Francis |
Love
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind." (h).+
- author unknown |
Love
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate; only love can do that." (l)
- Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Love
"Love creates an "us" without destroying a "me." (l).+
- author unknown |
Love
"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outwards
together in the same direction." (l)
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Love
"Love lights it's own path. It never get's lost on it's way home."
(l)
- author unknown |
Love
"A life filled with love must have some thorns, but a life empty of
love will have no roses." (l)
- author unknown |
Love
"Avoid this dangerous mix of personal (grasping),
spiritual and selfless love. Most of the time it ends in frustration."
(t).(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Love
"A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has
roused him in vain." (h)
- Jessamyn West |
Love
"With imagination we can capture infinity. With love we can make infinity
worth imagining.".(l).(n).9-00
- Brian Henke |
Love
"Love in its essence is spiritual fire." (h).+
- Swedenborg |
Love
"Love people and use things, don't love things and use people.".(l).(n).9-00
- Art DeMoss |
Love
"Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself.
- Not to whom I want you to be, but to who you are". (h)
- Leo Buscaglia |
Love
"Love is your window to the Infinite. Enjoy the view.".(h).(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Loving Kindness
"It's not just philosophy, not just words; it's knowing how the mind
functions; only then can you develop loving-kindness; only then can you
become a spiritual person.".(h).(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
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Magic
"The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits
to grow sharper." (h).+
- Eden Phillpots |
Magic
"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government
and business." +.(l).(n).9-00
- Tom Robbins |
Man
"Man - a being in search of meaning." (l).+
- Plato |
Man
"A man is a little soul carrying around a corpse." (l)
- M. Aurelius |
Master
"Be master OF mind rather than mastered BY mind.".(l).(n).9-00
- Zen Saying |
Meditation
"No need for special meditation rooms or temples.
You can even meditate by driving a car, having a conversation or working
at the computer." (t).(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Meditation
"Buddhist meditation doen't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with
your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense
world as you go about your business - walking, talking, shopping, whatever
- can be a really perfect meditation and bring a perfect result.".(l).(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Meeting
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed." (h)
- C.G. Jung |
Mental Workshop
"I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It is like
having a mental workshop.".(l).(n).9-00
- Jack Youngblood |
Mind
"There is no mind, but various states of mind.
The highest state embraces them all." (t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Mind
"Your mind is your religion." +.(h).(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Mind
"When we speak of mind, we speak of something that is not a thing in
itself. In its most fundamental sense, mind is not something we can limit.
We cannot say it has a particular shape, size or location, color or form,
or any other limiting characteristic.".(h).(n).9-00
- Kalu Rinpoche |
Mind-Activity
"Don't mind your make-up, you'd better make your mind up." (l)
- Frank Zappa |
Mind-Activity
"The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp
the world, but to change it." (l)
- Colin Wilson |
Mind-Control
"It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the
west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to
guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind
uncontrolled." (h)
- The Buddha |
Mind-Creativity
"Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created
by the activities of the mind." (h).+
- The Buddha |
Mindmade
"Westerners think that all that is negative and positive is only caused
from outside of themselves. They materialize and externalize their experiences,
never understanding the connection between outer and inner phenomena or
interdependent phenomena, looking for explanations only from objects through
nihilist habit instead of from the subjective experience of their own minds."
(h)
- Thinley Norbu Rinpoche |
Mindrepair
"Many open minds should be closed for repairs." (l).+
- Toledo Blade |
Miracle
"There are two ways to live your life: One is as though nothing is
a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." (l)
- Albert Einstein |
Modesty
"No really great man ever thought himself so." (l)
- William Hazlitt |
Modesty
"That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest." (l)
- Henry David Thoreau |
Money
"Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they
don't want, to impress people they don't like." (l).+
- Will Rogers |
Money
"I cannot afford to waste my time making money." (l).+
- Jean Louis Agassiz |
Morality
"Two things fill the mind with ever increasing wonder and awe. The
more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them:
the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Morality is not
properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may
make ourselves worthy of happiness." (h)
- Immanuel Kant |
Motivation/Work
"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work." (l)
- Richard Bach |
Move!
"All suffering is caused by being in the wrong place. If you're unhappy
where you are, MOVE." (l)
- Timothy Leary |
Music
"Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.".(h).(n).9-00
- Ludwig von Beethoven |
Music
"Any musical innovation is full of danger to the whole State...
when modes of music change, the State always changes with them.".(h).(n).9-00
- Plato |
Mysterious
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the
fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
(h).
+
- A. Einstein |
Mystery
"No mystery is closed to an open mind.".(l).(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Mysteries/Mind
"Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and
not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind." (h)
- Francis Bacon |
Mystery/Science
"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of Nature. And it is because
in the last analysis we ourselves are part of the mystery we are trying
to solve." (h).+
- Max Planck |
Mystical
"The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is." (h).+
- Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Mystics
"I think that people are born mystics - we are all mystics as children,
but it's taken away from us as we grow older. It's taken away subtly by
education which trains the left brain and ignores the right brain. They
take away your crayons right when you need them most - at puberty. When
you should be getting to your cosmic soul they give you football and shopping-malls."
+.(h).(n).9-00
- Matthew Fox |
Mystical Reality
"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we
wake and when we sleep." (h).+
- John Milton |
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Narrow
"The narrow mind rejects; wisdom accepts.".(l).(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Nature
"Nature is a mutual cloud, which is always and never the same." (l)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Nature
"All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying
- trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are
rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me."
(l)
- Laurie Anderson |
Nature
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.".(h).(n).9-00
- Frank Lloyd Wright |
Nature of Mind
"There has always been the pure nature of mind and there has always
been fundamental ignorance in the mind.".(h).(n).9-00
- Kalu Rinpoche |
New Age
"We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between
the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our original spiritual
and moral substance, which grew out of the same essential experience of
humanity. I believe that this is the only way to achieve a genuine renewal
of our sense of responsibility for ourselves and for the world. And at
the same time, it is the only way to achieve a deeper understanding among
cultures that will enable them to work together in a truly ecumenical way
to create a new order for the world." (l)
- Václav Havel |
New Age
"It is just a wonderful, wonderful time to be alive and to be able
to be part of the ever-growing spiritual awareness that is happening around
the world." (l)
- Jon Anderson |
New Age
"What the world needs more than anything are Bodhisattvas of peace,
lawyers, politicians, teachers working tirelessly for the enlightenment
of themselves and others." (l)
- Sogyal Rinpoche |
New Age
"The unrest you are experiencing is not individual psychological difficulty
but rather, part of a widespread spiritual awakening." (l)
- Carol Osborn |
New Ideas
"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened
of the old ones." (l)
- John Cage |
Non-being
"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy." (h).+
- The Dhammapada |
Nonessentials
"The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials."
(l).+
- Lin Yutang |
No Limits
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." (l)
- Walt Disney |
Nonsense
"A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men..." (l)
- Roald Dahl |
Nothing
"Nothing is more real than nothing." (h).+.(-
sounds very Buddhist)
- Democritus |
Nothing
"There is absolutely NOTHING, which is not mind-rooted.".(t).(h).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Nothing Less
"...to learn, to desire, to know, to feel, to think, to act. That is
what I want. And nothing less." (l)
- Katherine Mansfield |
Now!
"The word "now" is like a bomb thrown through the window, and it ticks."
(l)
- Arthur Miller |
|
Ocean
"The Emptiness of mind is the ocean; the luminosity of mind is the
sunlit ocean; and the unimpeded dynamic quality of mind is the waves of
the sunlit ocean.".(h).(n).9-00
- Kalu Rinpoche |
Old
"In order to be old and wise, you have to be young and naive first.".(l).(n).9-00
- author unknown |
One in All
"One moon shows in every pool; in every pool, the one moon." (h)
- Zen Saying |
Oneself
"Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at huge waves
of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the
ocean, at the circular motions of the stars; and they pass by themselves
without wondering." (l).+
- St. Augustine |
Oneself
"Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret
of a successful appearance. If one is a Greyhound, why try to look like
a Pekinese?" (l)
- Dame Edith Sitwell |
Open Mind
"The mind is like a parachute ... it must be open to work." (l).+
- author unknown |
Optimism
"Whenever you fall, pick something up." (l)
- Oswald Avery |
Optimist
"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist
stays up to make sure the old year leaves." (l).+
- Bill Vaughan |
Order
"The world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate.
It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order." (h)
- Henry Miller |
Order/Chaos
"Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve."
(h).+
- author unknown |
Originality
"Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before,
but in saying what you think yourself." (l)
- James Stephens |
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Paid
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." +.(h).(n).9-00
- Aristoteles |
Paradise
"Paradise is where I am." (l).+
- Voltaire |
Paradox Truth
"The reverse side also has a reverse side." (h).+
- Japanese Proverb |
Patience
"Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear." (h).+
- Lao-tse |
Patience
"Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience." (h)
- Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon |
Patience
"Patience! The windmill never strays in search of the wind." (l)
- Andy J. Sklivis |
Patience
"The patient in spirit is better that the proud in spirit." (l)
- Ecclesiastes |
Patience
"Patience is the companion of wisdom." (h).+
- St. Augustine |
Patience
"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing
and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without comment." +.(h).(n).9-00
- Theodore H. White |
Peace
"We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world
and don't make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner
peace." (h)
- The Dalai Lama |
Peace
"People say 'I want peace'. If you remove I {ego}, and your want {desire},
you are left with peace." (l).+
- Sai Baba |
Peace
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
(l).+
- Albert Einstein |
Peace
"If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person.
If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If
there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there
is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world." (h)
- Chinese Proverb |
Peace
"To embody peace and serenity is not a romantic
masquerade for sunday afternoons, but the result of a steady and hard mind-work
seven days a week. A possible by-product (- for some an end-product) of
the enlightenment-path." (t).(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Perception
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to
man as it is, infinite." (h)
- William Blake |
Perception
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." (h).(-
it should have 'limited' in it)
- Leonardo da Vinci |
Perfect
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to
see an imperfect person perfectly." (l)
- Sam Keen |
Perfection
"No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.".(h).(n).9-00
- Zen Saying |
Persistence
"Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there."
(1).+
- Josh Billings |
Pessimist
"The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist
after it, he knows too little.".(l).(n).9-00
- Mark Twain |
Philosophy
"Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom." (h)
- Cicero |
Philosophy
"Philosophy is not a theory but an activity." (l)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Philosophize
"To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death."
(h)
- Montaigne |
Pictures
"The soul never thinks without a picture." (h).+
- Aristotle |
Plans
"Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans.".(l).(n).9-00
- John Lennon |
Play your melody
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it
has a song." (h)
- Maya Angelou |
Possibilities
"In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's
mind there are few.".(h).(n).9-00
- Suzuki |
Prayer
"Seven days without prayer makes one WEAK." (l).+
- author unknown |
Praying
"Praying is a power, but just if used in the
right way: flying on the wings of pure intention." (t).(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Prejudice
"It's very depressing to live in a time where it's easier to break
an atom than a prejudice.".(l).(n).9-00
- A. Einstein |
Presence
"Do not dwell in the past. Do not dream of the future. Concentrate
the mind on the present moment." (h)
- The Buddha |
Presence
"Let the clock and the earth do their own thing... Let the comings
and goings of life continue... But YOU stay HERE and NOW. This exercise
is to bring you to the Eternal Present where it all is." (h)
- Ram Dass |
Present
"I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that
they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is." (h)
- Alan Watts |
Progress
"Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." (l).+
- Frank Zappa |
Projections
"Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks
into it." (l).+
- Ernest Holmes |
Proverb
"A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.".(l).(n).9-00
- Miguel de Cervantes |
Psychedelics
"Critics have told me I've ruined the lives of 50 million young people.
I can't be certain of this, since only about 10 million have ever
come back to thank me.".(l).(n).9-00
- Timothy Leary |
Pure
"Make your mind as pure as the blue sky.".(h).(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Purity
"If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure."
(h).+
- The Buddha |
Purity
"Water which is too pure has no fish." (h)
- Ts'ai Ken T'an |
Pureness
"Our mind is composed of many factors, both positive and negative,
but the essential nature of the mind is pure. It is like a nugget of pure
gold covered with many layers of dirt.".(h).(n).9-00
- Geshe Rabten |
Quantum Mechanics
"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood
it yet.".(h).(n).9-00
- Niels Bohr |
Quiet
"Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only
in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." (h).+
- Hans Margolius |
Quote
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.".(l).(n).9-00
- W. Somerset Maugham |
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Rainbow Nature
"In the daily profanity of life it's really hard
to hold one's vision of the vibrant rainbow nature of everybody's mind."(t).(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Reading
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting." (l)
- author unknown |
Reading
"If you believe everything you read, you better not read." (l).+
- Japanese proverb |
Real
"Everything you can imagine is real." (h)
- Pablo Picasso |
Reality
"We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how
we perceive reality." (h).+
- Bryan Singer |
Reality
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." (l).+
- Albert Einstein |
Reality
"HOFUKU (pointing at mountains): Is not this Reality? CHOKEI: It is,
but it’s a pity to say so." +.(l).(n).9-00
- Zen story |
Realization
"Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own
hearts." (l)
- A. Einstein |
Rediscover
"I invent nothing; I rediscover." (h)
- Rodin |
Reduce
"Manifest plainness - Embrace simplicity - Reduce selfishness - Have
few desires." (l)
- Lao-Tzu |
Reflection
"There is one art of which man should be master, the art of reflection."
(l)
- Samuel Coleridge |
Religion
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need
for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple;
the philosophy is kindness." (l).+
- The Dalai Lama |
Religion
"Religion is a defence against a religious experience." (h).+
- C.G. Jung |
Religious
"Just the idea that you are religious doesn't help at all. It does
not help you; it does not help others. In order to really help others,
you need to gain knowledge-wisdom." +.(l).(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Religious Feeling
"I maintain the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest
motive for scientific research." (h)
- Albert Einstein |
Religion/Humor
"It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it."
(l).+
- Gilbert K. Chesterton |
Respect
"Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions." +.(h).(n).9-00
- The Dalai Lama |
Rest
"Take rest; a field that has rested gives a beautiful crop." (l)
- Ovid |
Reward
"Meaning is found not in the rewards, for they are only tokens. Seek
not to have the gold medal. Instead, seek to be the person who can win
the gold medal. It is in the quest that you'll find the fulfillment which
the reward represents." (l)
- Ralph Marston |
Rising
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time
we fall." (l)
- Confucius |
Risks
"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on
the way down." (l)
- Ray Bradbury |
Rough Idea
"It is better to be roughly right than to be precisely wrong." (l).+
- John Maynard Keynes |
Rules
"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." (l).+
- Katherine Hepburn |
Ruling
"To summarize: it is a well known fact, that those people who most
want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize
the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President
should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary
of the summary: people are a problem." (l) |
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Safety
"A ship is safe in the harbour but that is not what ships are for."
(l).+
- Albert J Nimeth |
Screening
"Use your forehead as your main screen. Not the
monitor. Not the outer world." (t).(h)
- Hans Taeger |
Science
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound
source of spirituality." (h)
- Carl Sagan |
Science
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
(h)
- Albert Einstein |
Science
"As long as we do science, some things will always remain unexplained."
(l)
- Fritjof Capra |
Science/Divine
"The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the
physical world calls for the divine." (h)
- Vera Kistiakowsky |
Science/Religion
"When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the
strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the leap of
faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I
only wish they would admit it." (l)
- Tony Rothman |
Science/Religion
"Religion is science fleeing the investigation of matter. Science is
religion that has forgotten its origins." (h)
- T. Kun |
Science/Religion
"For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason,
the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance;
he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final
rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there
for centuries." (h).+
- Robert Jastrow |
Science/Spirituality
"There is and always was something fundamentally wrong with spirituality
that doesn't embrace all aspects of life including and, especially, physical
science." (l)
- T. Kun |
Seeing
"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing." +.(h).(n).9-00
- Publilius Syrus |
Seeking
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
(h)
- author unknown |
Self
"One may understand the cosmos, but never the self; the self is more
distant than any star." (l).+
- G.K. Chesterton |
Self
"The Self is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference
is nowhere." (h).+
- C.G. Jung |
Self
"The whole problem is to establish communication with one's self."
(h)
- E.B. White |
Self
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,
and that's your own self.".(h).(n).9-00
- Aldous Huxley |
Self
"The all knowing Self was never born, nor will it die. Beyond cause
and effect, this self is eternal and immutable. When the body dies, the
Self does not die. If the slayer believes that he can kill, And the slain
believes that he can be killed, Neither knows the truth. The eternal Self
slays not, nor is ever slain." (h)
- The Upanishads |
Self
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened."
(h)
- Lao Tzu |
Self-Acceptance
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely." (h).(-
must be meant cynically)
- C. G. Jung |
Self-Confidence
"Be a lamp to yourself. Be your own confidence. Hold to the truth within
yourself, as to the only truth." (h)
- The Buddha |
Self-Confidence
"Our Own Heart, And Not Other Men's Opinion, Form Our True Honor."
(l)
- Samuel Coleridge |
Self-Education
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there
is." +.(h).(n).9-00
- Isaac Asimov |
Self-Empowerment
"You, yourself, must make the effort. The Buddhas are only teachers."
(l).+
- Buddhist proverb |
Self-Ignorance
"All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have
put our hands before our eyes & cry that it is dark." (h)
- Swami Vivekananda |
Selfmade
"Most of the shadows of life come from your own self blocking the sun."
(h).(-
should read 'ego')
- James Pickett |
Self-Seeking
"Many of us spend our whole lives trying to find ourselves, forgetting
the fact that we ARE ourselves." (l).+
- Joe Viscomi |
Sense
"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not
between right and wrong.".(h).(n).9-00
- C. G. Jung |
Senses
"The universe didn't give us five precious senses
to waste them for tv or the internet." (t).(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Silent
"Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods." (l)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Simplicity
"Simplicity of all things, is the hardest to be copied." (l)
- Sir Richard Steele |
Simplicities
"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.".(h).(n).9-00
- Winston Churchill |
Sixties
"Anyone who remembers the 60's wasn't there!" +.(h).(n).9-00
- Stephen Stills, of Crosby Stills
Nash & Young |
Sky
"The nature of mind is like empty space, like the sky, which at present
is filled with clouds and fog and mist and periodically has all kinds of
activity such as hailstorms, snowstorms, rainstorms and thunder and lightning."
+.(h).(n).9-00
- Kalu Rinpoche |
Smile
"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword." (l)
- Charles Reade |
Smile
"If you're not using your smile, you're like a man with a million dollars
in the bank and no checkbook." (l)
- Les Giblin |
Smile
"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is
a caring, sharing person inside." (l)
- Denis Waitley |
Smile
"Those secret smiles with the heart can be much more enjoyable than
those which show in the face.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Society
"A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular." + (l).(n).9-00
- Adlai Stevenson |
Softness
"The grass must bend when the wind blows across it." (l)
- Confucius |
Solitude
"Solitude is the beginning of all freedom." (h)
- William O. Douglas |
Solution
"Knowing your own mind is the solution to all our problems.".(l).(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Spirits
"We are spirits with clothes on!" (l).+
- Amber Jayanti |
Spiritual Beings
"We are not Human Beings seeking a Spiritual Experience... We are Spiritual
Beings involved in a Human Experience." (h).+
- author unknown |
Spiritual Variety
"There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always
the same." (h).+
- Chinese Proverb |
Spreading Light
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror
that reflects it." (l).+
- Edith Wharton |
Stars
"A billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above
your head. But IN you is the presence that will be, when all the stars
are dead.".(h).(n)
9-00
- R. M. Rilke |
Stay Tuned
"Gray skies are just clouds passing over." (l)
- Duke Ellington |
Stories
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms.".(h).(n).9-00
- Muriel Rukeyser |
Strangers
"Think of strangers as friends you not met yet.".(l).(n).9-00
- Abraham Lincoln |
Stream
"It is better to be a small stream, than a deep ditch." +.(l).(n).9-00
- Chinese Saying |
Stupidity
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and
I'm not sure about the former." (l)
- Albert Einstein |
Stupidity
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its
limits." (l)
- A. Einstein |
Supernatural
"The supernatural is the natural not yet understood." (h).+
- Elbert Hubbard |
Supernatural Plan
"Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created
out of nothing, one with the very delicate balance needed to provide exactly
the conditions required to permit life, and one which has an underlying
(one might say 'supernatural') plan." (h)
- Arno Penzias |
Surprised
"When I was born I was so surprised I couldn't talk for a year and
a half." (l).+
- Gracie Allen |
Synchronicity
"When the student is ready... the lesson appears." (l).+
- Gene Oliver |
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Talk Wise!
"Wise people talk because they have something to say; fools, because
they have to say something." (l)
- Plato |
Teach
"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it
within himself.".(h).(n).9-00
- Galileo |
Teacher
"A great teacher never strives to explain his vision - he simply invites
you to stand beside him and see for yourself." (h)
- R. Inman |
Teacher
"One good teacher outweights a ton of books."
(l)
- Chinese proverb |
Telephone of Mind
"I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love,
and abundance. Then, whenever doubt, anxiety, or fear try to call me, they
will keep getting a busy signal - and soon they'll forget my number.".(l).(n)
9-00
- Edith Armstrong |
Think/Act
"Act like a man of thought - Think like a man of action." +.(l).(n)
9-00
- Thomas Mann |
Thinking
"A moment's thinking is an hour in words." (l)
- author unknown |
Thinking
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With
our thoughts, we make the world." (h).+
- The Buddha |
Thinking
"When the mind is thinking, it is talking to
itself." (h) +
- Plato |
Thoughts
"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind
is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." +.(h).(n).9-00
- The Buddha |
Time
"If nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. For time
is nothing but change. It is change we see occurring all around us, not
time. In fact, time doesn't exist." (h)
- Julian Barbour |
Time
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (l)
- author unknown |
Time
"Time is not a line, but a series of now-points." (h).+
- Taisen Deshimaru |
Time
"Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away." (l)
- Ben Hecht |
Time
"The best way to save some time is to use it.".(l).(n).9-00
- Carl Hammarén |
Time
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."
(l)
- Hector Berlioz |
Time
"Time is not money, but a free gift to brighten up one's karmic career.".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Time and Space
"....the unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in
the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They
are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche
time does not exist at all." (h)
- C. G. Jung |
Today
"The past, the present and the future are one; they are your today."
(h).+
- author unknown |
Today
"Yesterday is experience, tomorrow is hope, today is getting from one
to the other as best we can." (l)
- author unknown |
To Long
"If you think to long on your next step, you will end up in life standing
on one leg.".(l).(n).9-00
- Chinese Proverb |
Tolerance
"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just
because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." (l)
- H. Jackson Browne |
Touch
"When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others." (l).+
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
Tranquility
"Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so
long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true
image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed." (l)
- Indra Devi |
Transcendence
"True Understanding is Transcendence." (h)
- author unknown |
Transform
"Spiritualty is often connected with a special sense and attraction
for beauty, arts or an aesthetic environment. But on a higher level the
mind in unity with the heart can develop the potential to transform even
the most ugly and dirty looking thing into a firework of beauty and perfection.".(t).(h).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Travel
"The mind can travel everywhere. Why use the
body to travel somewhere?" (t).(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Truth
"There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously
and posthumously." (l)
- Thomas Sowell |
Truth
"Truth has no special time of it's own. It's hour is now ... always."
(l)
- Albert Schweitzer |
Truth
"Love truth but pardon error." (l)
- Voltaire |
Truth
"Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of
the times.".(l).(n).9-00
- C.G. Jung |
Truth
"What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.".(l).(n).9-00
- Louis L'Amour |
Truth
"To uncover the truth is not difficult, but to follow the truth is
formidable.".(l).(n).9-00
- Chinese Saying |
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Uncertainty
"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare
you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity." (h)
- R. I. Fitzhenry |
Unconsciousness
"The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience.
This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is identical
with God or is set up in his place. It is simply the medium from which
religious experience seems to flow. As to what the further cause of such
experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the range of human
knowledge." (h)
- C. G. Jung |
Unconsciousness
"The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity
which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment
go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious
attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its
danger increases." (h)
- C. G. Jung |
Unconsciousness
"The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded."
(h).+
- C. G. Jung |
Understanding
"Understanding is a kind of ecstasy." (l)
- Carl Sagan |
Understanding
"Much learning does not teach understanding." (l)
- Heraclitus |
Unio Mystica
"Therefore it is said that the whole universe is just an illusion unless
you immediately... attain the mystic path... seeing through wordly troubles,
forgetting all about subject and object... If you effectively understand
thus, it will make you happy for life." (h)
- Hui-Lin |
Unio Mystica
"He, knowing all, becomes the All." (h).+
- The Upanishads |
Unity
"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here
and you are there." (h)
- Yasutani Roshi |
Universal Design
"There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on
behind it all.... It seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature’s numbers
to make the Universe... The impression of design is overwhelming". (h)
- Paul Davies |
Universal Design
"The laws [of physics] ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious
design... The universe must have a purpose". (h)
- Paul Davies |
Universal Love
"Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious
of the cosmic forces." (h).+
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
Universal Mind
"The idea of a universal mind or Logos would be, I think, a fairly
plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory." (h)
- Arthur Eddington |
Universal Mind
"Know thyself, and thou shalt know the universe." (h)
- Socrates |
Universe
"An infinite universe is at each moment opened to our view. And this
universe is the sign and symbol of Infinite Power, Intelligence, Purity,
Bliss, and Love." (h)
- William Ellery Channing |
Universe
"The universe was born restless and has never since been still." (l)
- Rousseau |
Universe
"If you seek to understand the whole universe you will understand nothing
at all but seek to understand yourself and you will understand the the
whole universe.".(h).(n).9-00
- Druidic Axiom |
Universe
"The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination but the
combination is locked up in the safe." (l).+
- Peter DeVries |
Universe
"If you tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, he'll
believe you. But if you tell him a parkbench has just been painted, he
has to touch it to be sure." +.(h).(n).9-00
- Lynn |
Unlimited Mind
"The mind of man is capable of anything -- because everything is in
it, all the past as well as the future." (h)
- Joseph Conrad |
Unpretentiousness
"My belief is that to have no wants is divine." (h).+
- Socrates |
Using Others
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better
understanding of ourselves." (l)
- Carl G. Jung |
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Values
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value."
(l)
- Albert Einstein |
View
"We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks
the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would
have an entirely different view." (h)
- Mao Tse-Tung |
Virtue
"Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Virtue is doing it." (l).+
- David Starr Jordan |
Visa
"Visa-cards can't buy wisdom!".(t).(l).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Vision-Activity
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action with without vision is
a nightmare." (l).+
- Japanese proverb |
Voidness
"As soon as one's mind is known to be of the Wisdom of the Voidness,
concepts like good and evil karma cease to exist. Seek, therefore, thine
own Wisdom within thee. It is the Vast Deep." +.(h).(n).9-00
- Guru Padmasambhava |
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What is
"Whether a Buddha comes into the world or not, the nature of things
is still the nature of things. The Buddha is someone who realizes what
is true, what actually exists. If we want to become enlightened, we simply
have to acknowledge or recognize what is." (h)
- Tsoknyi Rinpoche |
Why Not?
"You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never
were; and I say, 'Why not?' " (l)
- George Bernard Shaw |
Window
"Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through
which you must see the world.".(l).(n).9-00
- G. B. Shaw |
Wisdom
"Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body." (l).+
- La Rochefoucauld |
Wisdom
"Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot." (l)
- Balthasar Gracian |
Wisdom
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge
we have lost in information.".(h).(n).9-00
- T. S. Eliot |
Wisdom
"It needs an extreme life or a very still one
to develop heart-generated wisdom." (t).(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Wisdom
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness." (h).+
- Sophocles |
Wisdom
"Wisdom is one of the few things one can't buy.
Must be a thorn in the flesh of industry!" (t).(l)
- Hans Taeger |
Wisdom-Activity
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch
what they do." (h)
- Andrew Carnegie |
Wisdom-Activity
"The journey is the reward." (h).+
- Chinese Proverb |
Wisdom/Activity
"I give myself very good advice But I very seldom follow it." (l)
- Alice, Alice in Wonderland |
Wisdom Ears
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the
audience is deaf." (h)
- Walter Lippmann |
Wisdom illumination
"As the light of a torch illumines the objects in a dark room, even
so the light of wisdom illumines all men, whosoever they may be; if they
turn towards it." (l)
- Fo shu-hing-tsan-king |
Wisdom Search
"Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect,
more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy." (l)
- Aquinas |
Wise
"The wise man knows without traveling." (h).+
- Lao-Tsze |
Wise
"A wise man hears one word and understands two." (l)
- author unknown |
Wise
"A wise mind is a loving mind." +.(h).(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Wise
"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."
(l)
- author unknown |
Wise
"We get old too soon and wise too late." (l).+
- author unknown |
Wise
"If you find you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday,
you are wiser today." (l)
- author unknown |
Wise
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." (l)
- William James |
Wisely
"The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.".(l).(n).9-00
- Sir William Osler |
Within
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared
to what lies within us." (l).+
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Wonder
"Wisdom begins in wonder." (h).+
- Socrates |
Wonder
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
(h)
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Wonder
"To wonder is to begin to understand." (l)
- Jose Ortega y Gasset |
Wonder
"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
+.(h).(n).9-00
- Gerry Spence |
Words
"Words without action are the assasins of idealism." (l)
- Herbert Hoover |
Words
"Words were invented to describe inner and outer pictures and feelings
which go ahead with them. In using words we all become magicians, movie
directors or sound artists, creating a powerful caleidoscope of picturesque
landscapes and imaginations. Some find this natural. I find it highly magical
and mystical.".(t).(h).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Write
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for
the public and have no self.".(l).(n).9-00
- Cyril Connolly |
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Your Trip
"Don't think that examining and knowing the nature of your mind is
just an Eastern trip. That's a wrong conception. It's your trip." +.(l).(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
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