The Great Quotes thread

[Eva2]

[pueblo]

"The Perfect Way (Tao) is without difficulty,
Save that it avoids picking and choosing.
Only when you stop liking and disliking
Will all be clearly understood.
A split hair's difference,
And heaven and earth are set apart!
If you want to get the plain truth,
Be not concerned with right and wrong.
The conflict between right and wrong
Is the sickness of the mind"

-Seng-ts'an, Hsin-hsin Ming.

[Innocent Warrior]

“When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.”

“Love is space and time measured by the heart.”

“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.”

“An hour is not merely an hour, it is a vase full of scents and sounds and projects and climates.”

“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”

“As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.”

“Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.”

“For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand times more powerful than any microbe: the idea that one is ill.”

“Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.”

“A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.”

~ Marcel Proust

[pueblo]

"And he (the creator) made the Soul out of the following elements and in the following manner. Out of the indivisible and eternally unchangeable essence, and also out of that which has to do with material bodies and is divisible (divided by Logos), by combining therefore the two, he had essences from both and he compounded a third and intermediate kind of essence between the indivisible and the divisible.

And after he had received all three kinds (the divisible, the indivisible and the compound) he blended them into a new kind, compressing by force the reluctant and unsociable nature of each into the others. he mingled this essence with the other two and made one out of three, which he again divided into as many portions (souls) as was fitting. Each portion of these had inside it of the one, the other and the third compound essence."

- Plato 'Timaeus'

[Rhogar]

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. Voltaire

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? George Eliot(Mary Ann Evans)

[Frankie Pancakes]

There are many thoughts on how this originated.

Never pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel and paper by the ton.

[pueblo]

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Posted by Vicus (here)
for everybody:

"The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and "consciousness" cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and "will" cannot evolve involuntarily. The evolution of man is the evolution of his power of doing, and "doing" cannot be the result of things which "happen."

-- G. I. Gurdjieff

[Frankie Pancakes]

I bought an Antifa© alarm clock. It just calls me names. Talk about a rude awakening.

John Wilder

[Eva2]

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
Kahlil Gibran

[Rhogar]

"Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without." - Confucius

"Trust dies but mistrust blossoms." - Sophocles

[Eva2]

Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire

[Eva2]

Advice from María Sabina a Mexican healer and poet.
“Heal yourself with the light of the sun and the rays of the moon. With the sound of the river and the waterfall. With the swaying of the sea and the fluttering of birds. Heal yourself with mint, neem, and eucalyptus. Sweeten with lavender, rosemary, and chamomile. Hug yourself with the cocoa bean and a hint of cinnamon. Put love in tea instead of sugar and drink it looking at the stars. Heal yourself with the kisses that the wind gives you and the hugs of the rain. Stand strong with your bare feet on the ground and with everything that comes from it. Be smarter every day by listening to your intuition, looking at the world with your forehead. Jump, dance, sing, so that you live happier. Heal yourself, with beautiful love, and always remember ... you are the medicine.”

[Eva2]

[Frankie Pancakes]

[Frankie Pancakes]

[Eva2]

"It is no teaching and no instruction that I give you. On what basis should I presume to teach you? I give you news of the way of this man, but not of your own way. My path is not your path, therefore I cannot teach you. The way is within us...
If you live according to an example, you thus live the life of that example, but who should live your own life if not yourself? So live yourselves...
There is only one way and that is your way.
You seek the path? I warn you away from my own. It can also be the wrong way for you.
May each go his own way.
I will be no savior, no lawgiver, no master teacher unto you. You are no longer little children..."
-C.G.Jung, The Red Book, page 231

[Rhogar]

"Everyone must come out of his exile in his own way." - Martin Buber

"Exile is a dream of glorious return." - Salman Rushdie

[Eva2]

[Bill Ryan]

Our problems are manmade; therefore, they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings. Man's reason and spirit have often solved the seemingly unsolvable, and we believe they can do it again.

— John F Kennedy

[Eva2]

'The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with great delight' Joseph Campbell