From Zhuangzi: “When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an echo.”
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Quote of the day 06/09/24
From Thich Nhat Hanh: “The truth is already in you. You only need to open yourself — body, mind, and heart — so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment. If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of theContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/09/24”
Quote of the day 05/25/24
From Soren Kierkegaard: “The truth is a snare: you cannot have it without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.”
Quote of the day 05/18/24
From Alan Watts: “In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.”
Quote of the day 04/25/24
From Dogen: “If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”
Quote of the day 04/21/24
From William Faulkner: “The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”
Quote of the day 03/31/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “There’s no one thing that’s true. It’s all true.”
Quote of the day 02/03/24
From Leo Tolstoy: “There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
Quote of the day 01/21/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
Quote of the day 12/04/23
From Leo Tolstoy: “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.”