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Sicho Naut
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"But now I realize that apart from a few special days now and then, life mostly consists of one dull, insignificant day after another. Human beings are attracted to drama and variety. The humdrum we hold in disdain. Wrapped up in the routines of our daily lives, we let them slide by unnoticed. But I believe that hidden in these ordinary, unremarkable routines of life is a great truth that requires our attention.
By contemplating life as it is, stripped of all extraneous added value, I found I could let go of a myriad of things that have been gnawing at my mind. Through the prosaic repetition of [the Zen monastery's] exacting daily routines for washing the face, eating, defecating, and sleeping, this is the answer that I felt in my bones: accept unconditionally the fact of your life and treasure each moment of each day."
-Kaoru Nonomura
By contemplating life as it is, stripped of all extraneous added value, I found I could let go of a myriad of things that have been gnawing at my mind. Through the prosaic repetition of [the Zen monastery's] exacting daily routines for washing the face, eating, defecating, and sleeping, this is the answer that I felt in my bones: accept unconditionally the fact of your life and treasure each moment of each day."
-Kaoru Nonomura
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
― Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"You can sail off the edges of the earth; greet the workers of the universe. Still, nothing prepares you for loss of life."
— MGMT, Loss of Life
“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
― Ursula Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
"You can sail off the edges of the earth; greet the workers of the universe. Still, nothing prepares you for loss of life."
— MGMT, Loss of Life
Few know how much we must know in order to know how little we know. ~Arabic Proverb
first you don't know things and then you know, correction, first you don't know, then you know that you don't know and only then can you know"
“Tell me, and I forget. Teach me, and I remember. Involve me, and I learn.”
—Benjamin Franklin
—Benjamin Franklin
To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe.
~Jerry Garcia
~Jerry Garcia
I have a lot of growing up to do. I realized that the other day inside my fort.
~Zach Galifianakis
~Zach Galifianakis
"I'm sick of following my dreams, man. I'm just going to ask where they're going and hook up with 'em later."
~Mitch Hedberg
~Mitch Hedberg
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Forgiveness is taking the knife out of your own back, and not using it to hurt anyone else, no matter how they hurt you.
~Old Saying
~Old Saying
weirdoigo
Esteemed member
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.”
“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
“The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.”
― Henry Miller
“The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
LuxObscura
Titanium Teammate
"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."
"The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
"One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage."
"If you are strong, appear weak. But if you are weak, appear strong."
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
"Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems."
"If a battle can not be won do not fight it."
"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."
"Great results, can be achieved with small forces."
"To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy."
"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."
"A leader leads by example not by force."
"All wars are won or lost before they are ever fought."
"If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by"
-Sun Tzu
"The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
"One need not destroy one's enemy. One need only destroy his willingness to engage."
"If you are strong, appear weak. But if you are weak, appear strong."
"The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting."
"Victory comes from finding opportunities in problems."
"If a battle can not be won do not fight it."
"Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."
"Great results, can be achieved with small forces."
"To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy."
"The greatest victory is that which requires no battle."
"A leader leads by example not by force."
"All wars are won or lost before they are ever fought."
"If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by"
-Sun Tzu
Speak your truth. Live in your power. Create your life. Never abandon yourself. And when you do abandon yourself, make sure you leave a light on to guide yourself back home.
You can internally cultivate all the feelings you seek from your external environment.
Love your whole self fiercely. Fall head over heels in love for the human you are: your strength, resilience, depth of love, your wide open heart, all of it.
No apologies necessary, no permission requested.
You can internally cultivate all the feelings you seek from your external environment.
Love your whole self fiercely. Fall head over heels in love for the human you are: your strength, resilience, depth of love, your wide open heart, all of it.
No apologies necessary, no permission requested.
weirdoigo
Esteemed member
“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”
— Terence McKenna
— Henry David Thoreau
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.”
— Terence McKenna
"Don't be a robot. Use your brain!" - The Traveler 
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.” ~ Isaac Asimov
"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve." - Max Planck
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’ but ‘That’s funny.” ~ Isaac Asimov
"Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve." - Max Planck