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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Quote of the day 05/30/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Words are many and the thing is one, but somehow it has got to be portrayed or suggested in words, but as a unity, not after the post-mortem of thought, not after the dissection of the intellect.”
Quote of the day 04/26/25
From William Blake: “One thought fills immensity.”
Quote of the day 03/03/25
From Francis Bacon: “Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.”
Quote of the day 02/05/25
From William Shakespeare: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Quote of the day 01/16/25
From R.H. Blyth: *Nothing divides one so much as thought.”
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.”
Quote of the day 10/16/24
From Immanuel Kant: “Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.”
Quote of the day 10/14/24
From Immanuel Kant: “Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man’s inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! ‘HaveContinue reading “Quote of the day 10/14/24”
Quote of the day 08/31/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Language disguises thought.”
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