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Quote of the day 12/17/25

From Gautama Buddha: “All conditioned things are impermanent—when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.”

Quote of the day 10/04/25

From Śāntideva: “All that may be wished for will by nature fade to nothing.”

Quote of the day 08/04/25

From John Keats: Life is but a day;A fragile dew-drop on its perilous wayFrom a tree’s summit.

Quote of the day 01/10/25

From the Diamond Sutra: “As a lamp, a cataract, a shooting star,an illusion, a dewdrop, a bubble,a dream, a cloud, a flash of lightning:view all created things like this.”

From Marcus Aurelius: “We should remember that even Nature’s inadvertence has its own charm, its own attractiveness. The way loaves of bread split open on top in the oven; the ridges are just by-products of the baking, and yet pleasing, somehow: they rouse our appetite without our knowing why.Or how ripe figs begin to burst.AndContinue reading “Quote of the day 11/18/24”

Quote of the day 11/04/24

From Heraclitus: “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

Quote of the day 04/27/24

From Dogen: “Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.”