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The Rationalized Quanta of Zen
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(From a friend's email, recently received)
* It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not.
* The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.
* It is not for us to search but to remain still, to achieve Immobility not Action.
* There is no becoming. ALL IS.
* The Saint is a man who disciplines his ego. The Sage is a man who rids himself of his ego.
* It is only the artificial ego that suffers. The man who has transcended his false 'me' no longer identifies with his suffering.
* We ourselves are not an illusory part of Reality; rather are we Reality itself illusorily conceived.
* Are we not wasps who spend all day in a fruitless attempt to traverse a window-pane - while the other half of the window is wide open?
* Detachment is a state, it is not a totalisation of achieved indifferences.
* The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.
* Wise men don't judge: they seek to understand.
* How many of the ways (disciplines, exercises, practices) recommended as helpful, or even necessary, for the attainment of Satori are not in fact consequences of that state erroneously suggested as means?
* There seem to be two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realising its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being.
- The authors of each quote are unknown
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(From a friend's emails, recently received - a slew of Quantum Zen Nuggets received as an email entitled "An Old Farmer's Advice".)
* Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.
* Keep skunks and bankers and lawyers at a distance.
* Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.
* A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.
* Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.
* Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.
* Forgive your enemies. It messes up their heads.
* Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.
* It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.
* You cannot unsay a cruel word.
* Every path has a few puddles.
* When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.
* The best sermons are lived, not preached.
* Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.
* Don't judge folks by their relatives.
* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
* Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.
* Don't interfere with somethin' that ain't botherin' you none.
* Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
* If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.
* Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.
* The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with, watches you from the mirror every mornin'.
* Always drink upstream from the herd.
* Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.
* Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.
* If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.
* Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
- The authors of each quote are unknown
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(From a friend's emails, recently received.)
I honor the place in you where the entire universe dwells. I honor the place in you which is of Love, Light, Truth and Peace. When you are in that place inside of you and I am in that place inside of me, we are one...namaste`.
- found on Yoga Loft - Zen Friends
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(From a friend's emails, recently received.)
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
- Woodrow Wilson
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Imagination unlocks the dream.
Satori allows you entry.
- Phil
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Being alone, loving what you're doing,
is far better than being alone among the huddled crowd.
- Phil
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Peaceful mind . . .
Peaceful heart . . .
Peaceful soul.
- Phil
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(From a friend's emails, recently received.)
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
Live the life you've imagined.
As you simplify your life, the laws of
the universe will be simplified.
- Henry David Thoreau
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(From 2 friend's emails, recently received.)
I think, therefore I am.
- René Descartes
I think, therefore I think I am.
- Richard Feynman
(And my view on the matter, based in the principle that "the thinker and the thought are one."
Thinking only makes thinking real.
- Phil
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Quantum Mechanics works in mysterious ways.
Zen works in obvious ways.
- Phil
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Knowledge means nothing if you don't have the wisdom to profit by it.
- Author unkown
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(From a friend's emails, recently received.)
Honesty, not vanity, is Truth.
It often requires courage to acknowledge the obvious.
Ego is a barrier to Satori.
Prosperous is the pauper who finds Satori.
Never believe what is called ‘obvious’ until it is obvious to you.
"Satori" provides the fair wind that propels my Cosmic Sailing Ship.
I have changed, and times have changed, and with it so the World.
I am aware of myself as "myself"; I am also aware of others’ awareness of me. Now, which Master should I serve?
Satori bring its own rainbow of beauty and Light.
Love is more rewarding than Hate.
It is critical to our well-being that we understand what we’re doing here.
One reality our brain performs is the logical, mechanical tasks (Math Brain) while the second reality pursues the goals set by the sentient intellect (Art Brain). The two realities have frequent dissensions which we characterize as ‘unable to make up our minds’.
Dreams are far more important to us than we can ever know.
The steadfastness of your principles determine the strength of your Endeavors.
Reality is what you think it is, until you change your mind.
Who wrote me into this play, in this theatre?
The future is no more, no less than the as-yet-unexperienced.
The path I travel wasn’t there before I stepped on it.
The ideal is invariably out-flanked by the over-riding urgency of the expediency.
The proof of multiple universes means one universe, but with multiple viewpoints of it - one for every consciousness existing everywhere.
I didn’t know before I thought about it that it wasn’t there.
Morality and the quantum dynamic are forever inter-twined through the phenomenon of choice.
Hypocrisy is actually a manipulation of the quantum dynamic, through choice, for gain.
I glide the gulf with effortless ease, for I’m the one on the quantum trapeze
- Tony Jones
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God was invented
because we fear the devil.
- Phil
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Religion is to dress up for.
Zen is to lounge in.
- Phil
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(From a friend's email, recently received.)
"Believe nothing just because a so-called wise person said it. Believe nothing just because a belief is generally held. Believe nothing just because it is said in ancient books. Believe nothing just because it is said to be of divine origin. Believe nothing just because someone else believes it. Believe only what you yourself test and judge to be true."
- Buddha
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The Big Bang is that instant in time when the prior Universe lost cohesive stability and our current universe sprang forth - the moment awareness fragmented and oneness became a personal thing: a void, seeking to eliminate its own non-existance.
- Phil
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(From a friend's email, recently received.)
"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your permission."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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Shibumi
(From a friend's email, recently received.
This is much like the Quantum Zen thought:
If you attempt to rationalize reality, you instantly lose reality.)
"Shibumi has to do with refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it does not have to be real. Shibumi is understanding, rather than knowledge. Eloquent silence. In demeanor, it is modesty without prudency. In art, it is elegant simplicity, articulate brevity. In philosophy, it is spiritual tranquility that is not passive; it is being without the angst of becoming. And in the personality of man, it is authority without domination. To arrive at shibumi, one must pass through knowledge and arrive at simplicity."
- Trevanian
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EXPECTED IN A COSMIC RELIGION
(From a friend's email, recently received.)
"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a
cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids
dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural and spiritual, and
is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all
things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningful unity."
- Albert Einstein
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The Mind of Absolute Trust
(From a friend's email, recently received.)
The great way isn't difficult for those who are unattached to their preferences.
Let go of longing and aversion, and everything will be perfectly clear.
When you cling to a hairbreadth of distinction, heaven and earth are set apart.
If you want to realize the truth, don't be for or against.
The struggle between good and evil is the primal disease of the mind.
Not grasping the deeper meaning, you just trouble your minds serenity.
As vast as infinite space, it is perfect and lacks nothing.
But because you select and reject, you can't perceive its true nature.
Don't get entangled in the world; don't lose yourself in emptiness.
Be at peace in the oneness of things, and all errors will disappear by themselves.
If you don't live the Tao, you fall into assertion or denial.
Asserting that the world is real, you are blind to its deeper reality;
denying that the world is real, you are blind to the selflessness of all things.
The more you think about these matters, the farther you are from the truth.
Step aside from all thinking, and there is nowhere you can't go.
Returning to the root, you find the meaning;
chasing appearances, you lose their source.
At the moment of profound insight, you transcend both appearance and emptiness.
Don't keep searching for the truth; just let go of your opinions.
For the mind in harmony with the Tao, all selfishness disappears.
With not even a trace of self-doubt, you can trust the universe completely.
All at once you are free, with nothing left to hold on to.
All is empty, brilliant, perfect in its own being.
In the world of things as they are, there is no self, no non self.
If you want to describe its essence, the best you can say is "Not-two."
In this "Not-two" nothing is separate, and nothing in the world is excluded.
The enlightened of all times and places have entered into this truth.
In it there is no gain or loss; one instant is ten thousand years.
There is no here, no there; infinity is right before your eyes.
The tiny is as large as the vast when objective boundaries have vanished;
the vast is as small as the tiny when you don't have external limits.
Being is an aspect of non-being; non-being is no different from being.
Until you understand this truth, you won't see anything clearly.
One is all; all are one. When you realize this, what reason for holiness or wisdom?
The mind of absolute trust is beyond all thought, all striving,
is perfectly at peace, for in it there is no yesterday, no today, no tomorrow.
-Seng-ts'an
Seng-ts'an lived in the late sixth century, was the third patriarch of Zen in China. There are many legends about him. According to one, Seng-ts'an was suffering from leprosy when he met the second patriarch Hui-k'o, who encountered him with the words, "You're suffering from leprosy; what could you want from me?"
Seng-ts'an is supposed to have replied, "Even if my body is sick, the heart-mind of a sick person is no
different from your heart-mind." This convinced Hui-k'o of the spiritual capacity of Seng-ts'an; he accepted him as a student and later confirmed him as his dharma successor.
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One must wait until evening to see how splendid the day was.
- Will Rogers
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Enlightenment is earned, not bestowed.
- Vi and Phil
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As long as you draw attention to all of your differences,
you will be treated differently.
- Phil
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Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind.
Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
- Buddha
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Men are four:
He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool - shun him;
He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple - teach him;
He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep - wake him;
He who knows and knows he knows, he is wise - follow him.
- Lady Burton
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The reason there are so few good talkers in public is that there are so few thinkers in private.
- Anon
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
- Richard Armour
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That person proves his worth who can make us want to listen when he is with us
and think when he is gone.
- Grit
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Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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There are many humorous things in the world:
among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
- Mark Twain
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Do not throw the arrow which will return against you.
- Kurdish Proverb
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Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese Proverb
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What I hear, I forget.
What I see, I remember.
What I do, I understand.
- Confucius
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There is no decent place to stand in a massacre.
- Leonard Cohen
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People do not so much fear growing old
as they do ceasing to grow old.
- Phil
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Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden (1631-1700)- from the poem "Absalom and Achitophel"
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He who truly knows has no occasion to shout.
- Leonardo
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If "A" is success, then the formula is:
A = X + Y + Z
X = work
Y = play
Z = knowing when to keep your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein
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To believe everything, to doubt everything,
two equally convenient solutions
both of which dispense with the necessity for reflection.
- Author unknown
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The difference between friend and stranger is a moment of discovery.
- Phil
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How many revelations have I had on my own
where a second opinion the
truth might have shown?
- Phil
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If a problem has a solution, why worry about it?
If a problem has no solution, why worry about it?
If you can't fight and you can't flee, flow.
- author unknown
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The psychic task which a person can and must set for himself is not to feel secure
but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
- Erich Fromm
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A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.
- Richard Dehmel
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The highest reward for man's toil is not what he "gets for it," but what he "becomes by it."
- Ruskin
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Great souls have wills, feeble ones have only wishes.
- Chinese Proverb
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It is not in doing what you like, but in liking what you do that is the secret of happiness.
- James Barrie
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I'm not young enough to know everything.
- J. M. Barrie
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Evil often triumphs but never conquers.
- author unknown
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The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
That is why so much social life is exhausting.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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He who gains victory over other men is strong, but he who gains victory over himself is powerful.
- Lao-Tse
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Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at?
The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.
- Albert Einstein
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mystical. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein
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Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
- Lewis Carroll
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The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
- Winston Churchill
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The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
- William James
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Consciousness is the basis of all life and the field of all possibilities.
Its nature is to expand and unfold its full potential.
The impulse to evolve is thus inherent in the very nature of life.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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I want to know how God created this world.
I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element.
I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.
- Albert Einstein
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Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
- Chief Seattle
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All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force.
We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind.
This Mind is the matrix of all matter.
- Max Planck, Nobel Prize-winning Father of Quantum Theory
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Time is not a line, but a series of now points.
- Taisen Deshimaru
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There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end of the search for the ultimate laws of nature.
- Stephen W. Hawking
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A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
- James Joyce, Ulysses
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The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
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I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
- Helen Keller
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The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.
- Emily Dickinson
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei
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Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
- Claude Bernard
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes
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The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
- Aart Van Der Leeuw
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The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow.
The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute.
What bitterness!
He lives for what is always out of reach!
His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.
- Chang-Tzu
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The universe on a very basic level could be a vast web of particles which remain in contact with one another over distance,
and in no time.
- R. Nadeau and M. Kafatos
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If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.
- Niels Bohr
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Everything you see has its roots in the unseen world.
The forms may change, yet the essence remains the same.
Every wonderful sight will vanish; every sweet word will fade,
but do not be disheartened, the source they come from is eternal, growing, branching out, giving new life and new joy.
Why do you weep? The source is within you And this whole world is springing up from it.
- Jelauddin Rumi
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Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It gives me a deep comforting sense that things seen are temporal and things unseen are eternal.
- Helen Keller
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Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment.
Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
- Albert Einstein
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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
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Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending spiral of destruction.
The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.
- Carl Jung
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If those who lead you say to you, 'See, the Kingdom is in the sky,'
then the birds of the sky will precede you.
If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,'
then the fish will precede you.
Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you.
When you come to know yourselves,
then you will become known,
and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father.
But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.
- (All the sayings of Jesus gathered from ancient sources and compiled into a single volume for the first time.
Compiled by Ricky Alan Mayotte) From "The Complete Jesus." (Pg 71) Jesus
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What we are looking for is what is looking.
- St. Francis of Assisi
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The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities.
- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner,
but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
- Stephen W. Hawking
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How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
- Niels Bohr
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