From Marcus Aurelius: “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
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Quote of the day 01/23/25
From Marcus Aurelius: “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
Quote of the day 01/20/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.”
Quote of the day 01/19/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them—these sticks, stones, feathers, shells—there is no Deity.”
Quote of the day 01/14/25
From Mencius: “The way is near but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek for it in difficult things.”
Quote of the day 01/13/25
From Confucius: “The way is not far from man. If we take the way as something superhuman, this is not the real way.”
Quote of the day 01/12/25
From Seng Ts’an: “The way is not difficult; but you must avoid choosing!”
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.”
Quote of the day 01/07/25
From William Blake: “We become what we behold.”
Quote of the day 01/03/25
From William Blake: “Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.”
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