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Quote of the day 11/27/24

From Lao Tzu: “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”

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 11/08/24

From Heraclitus: “The meaning of the river flowing is not that all things are changing so that we cannot encounter them twice but that some things stay the same only by changing.”

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 10/25/24

From Desiderius Erasmus: “At last concluded that no creature was more miserable than man, for that all other creatures are content with those bounds that nature set them, only man endeavors to exceed them.”

Quote of the day 10/08/24

From Marcus Tullius Cicero: “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

Quote of the day 08/02/24

From Zhuangzi: “I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.”

Quote of the day 07/23/24

From Zhuangzi: There was an old and crooked oak tree by the village shrine, every branch twisted and gnarled. The tree was large enough to shade several thousand oxen and was a hundred spans around. It towered above the hilltops with its lowest branches eighty feet from the ground. More than ten of its branchesContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/23/24”

Quote of the day 07/08/24

From Nagarjuna: “All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.”

Quote of the day 07/05/24

From Zhuangzi: “A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean, because he is limited by the size of his well. A summer insect cannot discuss ice, because it knows only its own season. A narrow-minded scholar cannot discuss the Tao, because he is constrained by his teachings. Now you have come out of yourContinue reading “Quote of the day 07/05/24”