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 This
collection of witty wisdom quotes (aprox. 450 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
('light weights',.'own
quotes',.'quotes
entry')) and even a kind of personal rating. You are actually at the
'the
heavy weights section'. 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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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
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Accordance
"When your intent is in accordance with the Universe, things start
happening."..(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Aging
"I'm not aging. I'm ripening to perfection." +..(n).9-00
- author unknown |
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).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Anger
"If deeply based in wisdom, even anger is allowed."
(t)
- Hans Taeger |
Antidote's
"The antidote's of spirituality are dogma and feelings of superiority.".(t).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
Appearances
"Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden." +..(n).9-00
- Anaxagoras |
Arriving
"A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
- Lao Tzu |
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."..(n).9-00
- author unknown |
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.".+
- Carl Gustav Jung |
Astrology
"The stars incline, but do not impel."
- Robert Heinlein |
Attention
"The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention."..(n).9-00
- Richard Moss |
Awaken
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ...
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside awakens." +
- author unknown |
Awareness
"Life is so short we must move very slowly.".+
- Thai saying |
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Beauty
"Beauty is not caused. It is.".+
- Emily Dickinson |
Beauty
"Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal."
- 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)
- Hans Taeger |
Beauty
"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.".+
- Confucius |
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."
- Osho |
Beliefs
"Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning.
A non-functioning mind is clinically dead. Believe in nothing... " +..(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."
- The Buddha |
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."
- 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.".+
- Chuang Tzu |
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)
- Hans Taeger |
Bow
"A Master who cannot bow to a disciple cannot bow to Buddha."..(n).9-00
- Suzuki Roshi |
Buddha by Nature
"You are all the Buddha.".+
- Last words of The Buddha |
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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).(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.".+
- The Buddha |
Cause & Effect
"The future depends on what we do in the present."
- Mahatma Gandhi |
Change
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale |
Change
"Everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing
himself.".+
- Leo Tolstoy |
Change
"In wisdom we acknowledge that everything changes. What is born will
die. What dies nourishes life in its many forms.".(n).9-00
- Patricia Lynn Reilly |
Clinging
"Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage,
even to the idea of enlightenment."
- Osho |
Color
"I am color."
- Paul Klee |
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."
- Albert Einstein |
Compassion
"Until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man
will not himself find peace.".+
- Albert Schweitzer |
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)
- Hans Taeger |
Contemplation
"All things considered, wisdom requires not only the investigation
of many things, but contemplation of the mystery."
- Jeremy Narby |
Convention
"The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
- Henri Bergson |
Count
"One should count each day a separate life."..(n).9-00
- Seneca |
Creativeness
"Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to
be born before one dies."..(n).9-00
- Erich Fromm |
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Dark
"An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine, but because
people refuse to see it.".+
- James A. Michener |
Darkness
"You live through the darkness from what you learned in the light."
- Hope MacDonald |
Dark/Light
"If we are unwilling to be aware of the dark, we cannot see the light."
- John Cowan |
Death
"People sleep, and when they die, they awake.".+
- Mohammed |
Death
"...death is only an horizon, and an horizon is only the limit of our
sight. Open our eyes to see more clearly...".+
- 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."
- E. Kübler-Ross |
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)
- 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."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Death/Birth
"After your death you will be what you were before your birth."
- 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.".+
- The Buddha |
Dependent Arising
"Because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there
are no phenomena which are not void."..(n).9-00
- Nagarjuna |
Describing
"Just as the mute person has trouble describing the taste of sugar,
we have trouble describing the nature of mind."..(n).9-00
- Kalu Rinpoche |
Desires
"The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.".+
- Seneca |
Direction
"The mind's direction is more important than its progress."..(n).9-00
- Joseph Joubert |
Doing
"To do is to be."
- Socrates
"To be is to do."
- Plato
"The way to do is to be.".+
- Lao-Tzu |
Doubt
"Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can
enter into the temple of wisdom.".+
- Colton |
Doubt
"Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith."
- Paul Johannes Tillich |
Doubt
"Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.".+
- 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)
- Hans Taeger |
Dream/Reality
"Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?".+
- 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." +
- Norman Cousins |
Ego
"The ego is the ugly troll that lives underneath the bridge between
your mind and your heart.".+
- Dennis Miller |
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."
- Pema Chodron |
Empty
"The empty vessel makes the greatest sound.".+
- author unknown |
Emptiness
"Everything is emptiness and illusion. Emptiness
and illusion is everything." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
End
"Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the Horizon as the
end of the ocean." +..(n)
9-00
- David Searls |
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"..+
- Dogen Lenji |
Enlightenment
"Enlightenment cannot be described, only experienced."
- 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)
- 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..."
- Ram Dass |
Enlightenment/Ego
"The attainment of enlightenment from ego’s point of view is extreme
death.".+
- Chögyam Trungpa |
Eternity
"Everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there
is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death."
- The Buddha |
Evolution
"The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of
mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual."
- C.G. Jung |
Examination
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
- 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)
- Hans Taeger |
Experience
"Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible
to others."
- William O. Douglas |
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."
- Joseph Campell |
Experience
"Knock on the sky and listen to the sound!".+
- Zen Saying |
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."
- T. S. Eliot |
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).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
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Fantasy
"Fantasy is the ability to think in pictures."..(n).9-00
- Mari |
Fear
"Who sees all beings in his own Self, and his own Self in all beings,
loses all fear.".+
- The Upanishads |
Fear
"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
- Bertrand Russell |
Fear
"Fear always springs from ignorance."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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."
- Krishnamurti |
Flexibility
"Man cannot change the direction of the wind, but he can adjust the
sails."
- 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.".+
- author unknown |
Flowering
"Many like to flower. Few allow time for fruiting.
Only wise men wait to offer themselves as seeds for others." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Flying
"Before you can learn to fly, you must first learn to walk. You cannot
fly into flying."
- author unknown |
Free yourself
"Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free
our minds."
- Bob Marley |
Friends
"There are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of
ideas. Rarest are those friends of one's inmost self."
- Balthasar Gracian |
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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."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Genius
"Passion holds up the bottom of the universe and genius paints up its
roof."..(n).9-00
- Chang Ch'ao |
Giving
"To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.".+
- Taisen Deshimaru |
Good
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for
reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."..(n).9-00
- Albert Einstein |
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."..(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Growth
"A good environment for a common spiritual growth
and a lasting friendship is an erotic tension without grasping for fulfillment."
(t)
- Hans Taeger |
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Happiness
"Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.".+
- 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."..(n).9-00
- Herman Hesse |
Heart
"The head doesn't hear unless the heart desires to listen."
- author unknown |
Heart/Mind
"The heart has its reasons that the mind knows nothing of."
- Blaise Pascal |
Heaven
"What power would hell have if those imprisoned there could not dream
of heaven?"
- author unknown |
Hidden
"Anything visible is a mask, anything hidden is real.".+
- author unknown |
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." +..(n).9-00
- Charles Ponce |
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Ignorance
"The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant."
- Lord David Cecil |
Ignorance
"It may sound paradoxical, but I'm quite sure
that hate and ignorance are the father and mother of enlightenment." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Ignorance
"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star."
- Confucius |
Ignorance
"Behind every argument is someone's ignorance."..(n).9-00
- Louis D. Brandeis |
Illusion
"We practise illusory practise in an illusory way, in order to reach
illusory enlightenment and deliver illusory beings from suffering.".+
- Khyungpo Naljyor, Foundation
for the Preservation of the Mahayana Tradition |
Illusion
"All that we see or seen is but a dream within a dream.".+
- 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)
- Hans Taeger |
Imagination
"Imagination is more important than knowledge; for knowledge is limited
while imagination embraces the entire world."
- author unknown |
Imagination
"Our imagination flies; we are its shadow on the earth."
- Vladimir Nabokov |
Imagination
"You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
- Mark Twain |
Imagination
"The world is but a canvas to the imagination."..(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... "..(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Impossible
"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them
into the impossible."..(n).9-00
- Arthur C. Clarke |
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."
- William Blake |
Infinity
"I am home, feeling so far away."
- Enya |
Infinite Library
"The infinite library of the universe is in your mind.".+
- Swami Vivekananda |
Insanity
"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."..(n).9-00
- R. D. Laing |
Inside
"We carry with us the wonders we seek without us.".+
- Sir Thomas Browne |
Instinct
"Instinct is the nose of the mind.".+
- Madame De Girardin |
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."..(n).9-00
- Geshe Rabten |
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Karma
"One action produces a reaction; that is karma." +..(n).9-00
- Lama Thubten Yeshe |
Karmic Awareness
"All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.".+
- author unknown |
Kindness
"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this
is the beginning of wisdom."
- Theodore I. Rubin |
Kindness
"Kindness arises by standing apart from oneself
and recognizing all beings as companions on the arduous travel towards
highest perfection." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Knowledge/Wisdom
"...Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes
by putting things together...".+
- John Morrison |
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."
- author unknown |
Knowledge
"The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion
of knowledge."..(n).9-00
- Daniel J. Boorstin |
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Language
"Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear."
- Nicole Brossard |
Let go
"How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river
flows on."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Life
"Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.".+
- author unknown |
Life
"There is nothing like dead matter or empty space.
Everything is full of light, energy, change, spirit and inter-communication."
(t)
- Hans Taeger |
Life
"Life is but a journey; death is returning home."
- Chinese proverb |
Life
"Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved."..(n).9-00
- Van Kaam |
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."..(n).9-00
- Elizabeth Kübler-Ross |
Little Things
"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little
things, I am tempted to think, there are no little things."
- Bruce Barton |
Logic
"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.".+
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
Long Before
"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." +..(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."..(n).9-00
- Brendan Francis |
Love
"Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.".+
- author unknown |
Love
"A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has
roused him in vain."
- Jessamyn West |
Love
"Love in its essence is spiritual fire.".+
- Swedenborg |
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".
- Leo Buscaglia |
Love
"Love is your window to the Infinite. Enjoy the view."..(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."..(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.".+
- Eden Phillpots |
Meeting
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical
substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
- C.G. Jung |
Mind
"There is no mind, but various states of mind.
The highest state embraces them all." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Mind
"Your mind is your religion." +..(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."..(n).9-00
- Kalu Rinpoche |
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."
- The Buddha |
Mind-Creativity
"Just as a picture is drawn by an artist, surroundings are created
by the activities of the mind.".+
- 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."
- Thinley Norbu Rinpoche |
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."
- Immanuel Kant |
Music
"Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life."..(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."..(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.".
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- A. Einstein |
Mysteries/Mind
"Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and
not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind."
- 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.".+
- Max Planck |
Mystical
"The mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.".+
- Ludwig Wittgenstein |
Mystical Reality
"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we
wake and when we sleep.".+
- John Milton |
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."
+..(n).9-00
- Matthew Fox |
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Nature
"I believe in God, only I spell it Nature."..(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."..(n).9-00
- Kalu Rinpoche |
Non-being
"Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.".+
- The Dhammapada |
Nothing
"Nothing is more real than nothing.".+.(-
sounds very Buddhist)
- Democritus |
Nothing
"There is absolutely NOTHING, which is not mind-rooted.".(t).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
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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."..(n).9-00
- Kalu Rinpoche |
One in All <>
"One moon shows in every pool; in every pool, the one moon."
- Zen Saying |
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."
- Henry Miller |
Order/Chaos
"Without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve.".+
- author unknown |
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Paid
"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." +..(n).9-00
- Aristoteles |
Paradox Truth
"The reverse side also has a reverse side.".+
- Japanese Proverb |
Patience
"Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.".+
- Lao-tse |
Patience
"Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience."
- Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon |
Patience
"Patience is the companion of wisdom.".+
- 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." +..(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."
- The Dalai Lama |
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."
- Chinese Proverb |
Perception
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to
man as it is, infinite."
- William Blake |
Perception
"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions." .(-
it should have 'limited' in it)
- Leonardo da Vinci |
Perfection
"No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place."..(n).9-00
- Zen Saying |
Philosophy
"Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom."
- Cicero |
Philosophize
"To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death."
- Montaigne |
Pictures
"The soul never thinks without a picture.".+
- Aristotle |
Play your melody
"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it
has a song."
- Maya Angelou |
Possibilities
"In the beginners mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's
mind there are few."..(n).9-00
- Suzuki |
Presence
"Do not dwell in the past. Do not dream of the future. Concentrate
the mind on the present moment."
- 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."
- 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."
- Alan Watts |
Pure
"Make your mind as pure as the blue sky."..(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Purity
"If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure.".+
- The Buddha |
Purity
"Water which is too pure has no fish."
- 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."..(n).9-00
- Geshe Rabten |
Quantum Mechanics
"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood
it yet."..(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.".+
- Hans Margolius |
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Real
"Everything you can imagine is real."
- Pablo Picasso |
Reality
"We don't live in the world of reality, we live in the world of how
we perceive reality.".+
- Bryan Singer |
Rediscover
"I invent nothing; I rediscover."
- Rodin |
Religion
"Religion is a defence against a religious experience.".+
- C.G. Jung |
Religious Feeling
"I maintain the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest
motive for scientific research."
- Albert Einstein |
Respect
"Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, Respect for others and
Responsibility for all your actions." +..(n).9-00
- The Dalai Lama |
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Screening
"Use your forehead as your main screen. Not the
monitor. Not the outer world." (t)
- Hans Taeger |
Science
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound
source of spirituality."
- Carl Sagan |
Science
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
- Albert Einstein |
Science/Divine
"The exquisite order displayed by our scientific understanding of the
physical world calls for the divine."
- Vera Kistiakowsky |
Science/Religion
"Religion is science fleeing the investigation of matter. Science is
religion that has forgotten its origins."
- 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.".+
- Robert Jastrow |
Seeing
"The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing." +..(n).9-00
- Publilius Syrus |
Seeking
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
- author unknown |
Self
"The Self is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference
is nowhere.".+
- C.G. Jung |
Self
"The whole problem is to establish communication with one's self."
- E.B. White |
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."
- The Upanishads |
Self
"He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened."
- Lao Tzu |
Self
"There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving,
and that's your own self."..(n).9-00
- Aldous Huxley |
Self-Acceptance
"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely." .(-
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."
- The Buddha |
Self-Education
"Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there
is." +..(n).9-00
- Isaac Asimov |
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."
- Swami Vivekananda |
Selfmade
"Most of the shadows of life come from your own self blocking the sun."
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should read 'ego')
- James Pickett |
Sense
"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not
between right and wrong."..(n).9-00
- C. G. Jung |
Simplicities
"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge."..(n).9-00
- Winston Churchill |
Sixties
"Anyone who remembers the 60's wasn't there!" +..(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."
+..(n).9-00
- Kalu Rinpoche |
Solitude
"Solitude is the beginning of all freedom."
- William O. Douglas |
Spiritual Beings
"We are not Human Beings seeking a Spiritual Experience... We are Spiritual
Beings involved in a Human Experience.".+
- author unknown |
Spiritual Variety
"There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always
the same.".+
- Chinese Proverb |
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."..(n)
9-00
- R. M. Rilke |
Stories
"The universe is made of stories, not atoms."..(n).9-00
- Muriel Rukeyser |
Supernatural
"The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.".+
- 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."
- Arno Penzias |
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Teach
"You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it
within himself."..(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."
- R. Inman |
Thinking
"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With
our thoughts, we make the world.".+
- The Buddha |
Thinking
"When the mind is thinking, it is talking to
itself." +
- 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." +..(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."
- Julian Barbour |
Time
"Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.".+
- Taisen Deshimaru |
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."
- C. G. Jung |
Today
"The past, the present and the future are one; they are your today.".+
- author unknown |
Transcendence
"True Understanding is Transcendence."
- 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).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
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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."
- 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."
- 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."
- C. G. Jung |
Unconsciousness
"The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded.".+
- C. G. Jung |
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."
- Hui-Lin |
Unio Mystica
"He, knowing all, becomes the All.".+
- The Upanishads |
Unity
"The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here
and you are there."
- 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".
- Paul Davies |
Universal Design
"The laws [of physics] ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious
design... The universe must have a purpose".
- Paul Davies |
Universal Love
"Love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious
of the cosmic forces.".+
- 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."
- Arthur Eddington |
Universal Mind
"Know thyself, and thou shalt know the universe."
- 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."
- William Ellery Channing |
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."..(n).9-00
- Druidic Axiom |
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." +..(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."
- Joseph Conrad |
Unpretentiousness
"My belief is that to have no wants is divine.".+
- Socrates |
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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."
- Mao Tse-Tung |
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." +..(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."
- Tsoknyi Rinpoche |
Wisdom
"Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.".+
- Sophocles |
Wisdom
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge
we have lost in information."..(n).9-00
- T. S. Eliot |
Wisdom-Activity
"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch
what they do."
- Andrew Carnegie |
Wisdom-Activity
"The journey is the reward.".+
- Chinese Proverb |
Wisdom Ears
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the
audience is deaf."
- Walter Lippmann |
Wise
"The wise man knows without traveling.".+
- Lao-Tsze |
Wise
"A wise mind is a loving mind." +..(n).9-00
- author unknown |
Wonder
"Wisdom begins in wonder.".+
- Socrates |
Wonder
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Wonder
"I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
+..(n).9-00
- Gerry Spence |
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).(n).9-00
Hans Taeger |
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