The adventure of life is like sailing in a small ship. We can adjust the sails and rudder but the wind and waves are mostly in control. Reaching our goals, changing them when the situation proves they are unobtainable, recovering from unexpected hardships, succeeding when it seems all is lost; in the end we have much less control than we believe. This makes life scary but it also makes it exciting and enjoyable.
~John Mallozzi
The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer,
like the cover of an old book,
its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding,
lies here, food for worms.
But the work shall not be lost;
for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and more elegant edition,
revised and corrected by the Author.
~Benjamin Franklyn
Who looks outside dreams.
Who looks inside awakens.
~Carl Jung
We meet ourselves time and time again
in a thousand disguises on the path of life.
~Carl Jung
All that we see or seem
is but a dream withing a dream
~Edgar Allen Poe
In the middle of the journey of our life
I found myself in a dark wood,
For I had lost the right path.
~Dante
Nothing intelligible can be written
which, with time, I cannot decipher.
~Edgar Allan Poe
Matter is derived from mind or consciousness,
and not mind or consciousness from matter.
~Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
God sleeps in the rock
Dreams in the plant,
Stirs in the animal
And awakens in man.
~Sufi teaching
The aim isn't to degrade mind to matter, but to upgrade the properties of matter to account for mind, and to tell how from the dust and water of the earth, natural forces conjured a mental system capable of asking why it exists.
~Nigel V. Calder
A child walks with its mother.
It sees an oily rainbow
On the road, a leaf, veined
And dappled, on the path,
A puddle full of clouds,
A smiling dog, a cat
That needs to be stroked,
A builder’s van all a-rattle,
A gentle robin.
What did you see?
~Peter Gray
Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the blue sky?
Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it?
No, we just enjoy it.
Each second,
Each minute of our lives can be like this.
Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, even the sensation of our breathing.
We don’t need to go to China
To enjoy the blue sky.
We don’t have to travel into the future
To enjoy our breathing
We can be in touch with these things right now.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend
59 minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys, or shame for things badly done (both utterly
useless and weakening) - or in a future which we either long for or dread.
Yet the past is gone beyond prayer, and every minute you spend in the vain effort to anticipate the future is a moment lost.
There is only one world, the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute - here and now.
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is - a miracle and unrepeatable.
~Storm Jameson, novelist, 1891-1986
Man can do what he wants,
but he cannot will what he wills
Schopenhauer German pessimist philosopher (1788-1860)
~We can try to do what we want;
but we can't always choose the things we want.~
(Example: May want very much to smoke
even though we wish we did not want to smoke)
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
~Will Durant
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said,
but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard
is not what I meant.
~ Robert McCloskey
I see no more than you,
but I have trained myself
to notice what I see.
~Sherlock Holmes
Show me a sane man and I'll cure him for you.
~Carl Jung
If you don’t have time to do it right,
when will you have time to do it over?
~John Wooden
Remember there's no such thing as a
small act of kindness. Every act
creates a ripple with no logical end.
~Scott Adams
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the 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.
~Saint Augustine
Once you've accepted who you are,
it doesn't matter what others think,
as long as you're being you.
In the middle of the journey of our life
I found myself in a dark wood,
For I had lost the right path.
~Dante
Nothing intelligible can be written
which, with time, I cannot decipher.
~Edgar Allan Poe
Matter is derived from mind or consciousness,
and not mind or consciousness from matter.
~Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation
God sleeps in the rock
Dreams in the plant,
Stirs in the animal
And awakens in man.
~Sufi teaching
The aim isn't to degrade mind to matter, but to upgrade the properties of matter to account for mind, and to tell how from the dust and water of the earth, natural forces conjured a mental system capable of asking why it exists.
~Nigel V. Calder
A child walks with its mother.
It sees an oily rainbow
On the road, a leaf, veined
And dappled, on the path,
A puddle full of clouds,
A smiling dog, a cat
That needs to be stroked,
A builder’s van all a-rattle,
A gentle robin.
What did you see?
~Peter Gray
Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the blue sky?
Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it?
No, we just enjoy it.
Each second,
Each minute of our lives can be like this.
Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, even the sensation of our breathing.
We don’t need to go to China
To enjoy the blue sky.
We don’t have to travel into the future
To enjoy our breathing
We can be in touch with these things right now.
~Thich Nhat Hanh
I believe that only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present. Most of us spend
59 minutes an hour living in the past, with regret for lost joys, or shame for things badly done (both utterly
useless and weakening) - or in a future which we either long for or dread.
Yet the past is gone beyond prayer, and every minute you spend in the vain effort to anticipate the future is a moment lost.
There is only one world, the world pressing against you at this minute. There is only one minute in which you are alive, this minute - here and now.
The only way to live is by accepting each minute as an unrepeatable miracle. Which is exactly what it is - a miracle and unrepeatable.
~Storm Jameson, novelist, 1891-1986
Man can do what he wants,
but he cannot will what he wills
Schopenhauer German pessimist philosopher (1788-1860)
~We can try to do what we want;
but we can't always choose the things we want.~
(Example: May want very much to smoke
even though we wish we did not want to smoke)
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
~Will Durant
I know that you believe you understand what you think I said,
but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard
is not what I meant.
~ Robert McCloskey
I see no more than you,
but I have trained myself
to notice what I see.
~Sherlock Holmes
Show me a sane man and I'll cure him for you.
~Carl Jung
If you don’t have time to do it right,
when will you have time to do it over?
~John Wooden
Remember there's no such thing as a
small act of kindness. Every act
creates a ripple with no logical end.
~Scott Adams
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the 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.
~Saint Augustine
From Fridge Soup Blog:
http://friko-fridgesoup.blogspot.com/2011/08/fun-for-lexophiles.html
Fun for Lexophiles
* A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
* A will is a dead giveaway.
* Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
* A backward poet writes inverse.
* A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.
* When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
* The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
* You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
* He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
* A calendar's days are numbered.
* A boiled egg is hard to beat.
* He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
* The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
* Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
* When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.
* If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine.
* When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.
* Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
* Acupuncture: a jab well done.
* Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.
* The roundest knight at king Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference. He acquired his size from too much pi.
* I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.
* She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.
* A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.
* No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
* A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
* Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
* A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
* Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
* I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.
* A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'
* A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital. When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change yet.'
* The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.
* Don't join dangerous cults: practice safe sects.
Once you've accepted who you are,
it doesn't matter what others think,
as long as you're being you.
~ Lon Anderson
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