From E.E. Cummings: “Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but the moment you feel, you’re nobody but yourself.”
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Quote of the day 08/15/25
From Marcus Aurelius: “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Quote of the day 08/07/25
From John Keats: “The only means of strengthening one’s intellect is to make up one’s mind about nothing — to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”
Quote of the day 07/20/25
From Basho: “What is important is to keep our mind high in the world of true understanding, and returning to the world of our daily experience to seek therein the truth of beauty. No mater what we may be doing at a given moment, we must not forget that it has a bearing upon ourContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/20/25”
Quote of the day 06/26/25
From Udanavarga: “He whose mind is subdued and perfectly controlled is happy.”
Quote of the day 06/16/25
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.”
Quote of the day 06/11/25
From Edwin Arnold: “Steadfast a lamp burns sheltered from the wind;Such is the likeness of the Yogi’s mindShut from sense-storms and burning bright to Heaven.”
Quote of the day 06/06/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The absolute value of things is infinite; our minds, which change according to our circumstances, that is, our necessities, decide that things are vile or precious.”
Quote of the day 06/05/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…when we think about ourselves, we are deeply conscious of our physical pains and pleasure, but if we forget ourselves, the body too, becoming one with the mind, is hardly aware of its pain and pleasure, cold and heat. How much our happiness depends upon the condition of our minds, is shownContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/05/25”
Quote of the day 06/03/25
From R.H. Blyth: “We do zazen, not to get anything, but to throw away all we have and to throw away even the idea that we are throwing something away. ‘A still-soliciting eye.’ This is the precise opposite of Wordsworth’s ‘a quiet eye’; it is the disease of the mind, to be always, incessantly, evenContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/03/25”
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