May 2013
“We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.”
– Robert Adams (via samsaranmusing)
February 2013
“Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday...”
– Shunryu Suzuki (via samsaranmusing)
January 2013
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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a...”
– Douglas Adams
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“The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there”
– Robert M. Pirsig
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“If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you...”
– Dōgen
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“But when you’re in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new...”
– George Carlin
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“I’m simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I’m saying that...”
– Osho
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“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
– Alan Wilson Watts
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“Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”
– Meister Eckhart
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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is...”
– Bil Keane
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“Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You...”
– Osho
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“Experience life in all possible ways —
good-bad, bitter-sweet,...”
– Osho
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“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I’ll...”
– Rumi
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“The recognition of the law of the cause and effect, also known as karma, is a...”
– Keanu Reeves
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“The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not...”
– Pema Chödrön
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“True change is within; leave the outside as it is.”
– Dalai Lama XIV
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“1. Accept everything just the way it is.
2. Do not seek pleasure for its own...”
– Miyamoto Musashi
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“Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible. We all wish for world peace, but...”
– Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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“Even if things don’t unfold the way you expected, don’t be...”
– Daisaku Ikeda
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“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy,...”
– Pema Chödrön
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Aside from a built-in timer to get out of the bathtub, the ability for hands and feet to wrinkle after prolonged exposure to water may confer additional (and much more useful) evolutionary advantage. Research suggests that wrinkled palmar and plantar surfaces act as “tire treads” and allow for heightened grip in wet environments. This function would have been useful to our ancestors, who may...
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“A person, who no matter how desperate the situation, gives others hope, is a...”
– Daisaku Ikeda
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“When you dig a well, there’s no sign of water until you reach it, only...”
– Gautama Buddha
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“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.”
– Shunryu Suzuki
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“The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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“We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have...”
– Hermann Hess
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“Many people think excitement is happiness…. But when you are excited you...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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“If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it...”
– Albert Einstein
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“If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy,...”
– Pema Chödrön
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“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be...”
– Ray Bradbury
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“You only lose what you cling to.”
– Gautama Buddha
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“If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it’s fruitless to...”
– Pema Chödrön
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“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the...”
– Alan Cohen
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“If you surrender completely to the moments as they pass, you live more richly...”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized,...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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“Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more.”
– Osho
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“Believe those who are seeking truth; doubt those who find it”
– Andre Gide (via lorroarfuckyeah)
“Love needs two things: it has to be rooted in freedom, and it has to know the...”
– Osho (via goofwork)
“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year...”
– Benjamin Franklin (via apoplecticskeptic)
