From Haruki Murakami: “Things outside you are projections of what’s inside you, and what’s inside you is a projection of what’s outside. So when you step into the labyrinth outside you, at the same time you’re stepping into the labyrinth inside.”
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Quote of the day 07/31/25
From John Keats: “Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
Quote of the day 07/06/25
From the Salla Sutta: “This world is afflicted with death and decay; therefore the wise do not grieve, knowing the terms of the world.”
Quote of the day 06/13/25
From the Fo-pen-hing-tsih-king: “All men should cultivate a fixed and firm determination, and vow that what they once undertake they will never give up.”
Quote of the day 04/07/25
From the Hekiganrobu: “To meet with ill fortune is to meet with good fortune. To meet with submission is to meet with an enemy.”
Quote of the day 03/05/25
From Francis Bacon: “He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”
Quote of the day 02/26/25
From Francis Bacon: “If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted.”
Quote of the day 02/14/25
From Rumi: “If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
Quote of the day 02/13/25
From Rumi: “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
Quote of the day 02/10/25
From Thích Nhất Hạnh: “The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.”