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Quote of the day 02/08/25

From R.H. Blyth: “What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.”

Posted byKevin WarstadtFebruary 8, 2025February 8, 2025Posted inUncategorizedTags:answers, eastern philosophy, life, meaning, philosophy, questions, quotes, understanding, zen, Zen BuddhismLeave a comment on Quote of the day 02/08/25

Quote of the day 02/07/25

From Unmon: “If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit; but whatever you do, don’t wabble.”

Posted byKevin WarstadtFebruary 7, 2025Posted inUncategorizedTags:action, eastern philosophy, life, meaning, philosophy, quotes, understanding, zen, Zen BuddhismLeave a comment on Quote of the day 02/07/25

Quote of the day 02/04/25

From William Shakespeare: “There is some soul of goodness in things evil, would men observingly distill it out.”

Posted byKevin WarstadtFebruary 4, 2025Posted inUncategorizedTags:art, evil, good, life, literature, morality, philosophy, quotes, theater, understanding, William Shakespeare, world, zen, Zen BuddhismLeave a comment on Quote of the day 02/04/25

Quote of the day 02/03/25

From Epictetus: “Two rules we should always have ready,-that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.”

Posted byKevin WarstadtFebruary 3, 2025Posted inUncategorizedTags:action, Epictetus, evil, good, history, life, morality, philosophy, purpose, stoicism, understandingLeave a comment on Quote of the day 02/03/25

Quote of the day 02/02/25

From Emerson: “Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”

Posted byKevin WarstadtFebruary 2, 2025Posted inUncategorizedTags:Emerson, meaning, nature, philosophy, quotes, R.H. Blyth, reality, understanding, zen, Zen BuddhismLeave a comment on Quote of the day 02/02/25

Quote of the day 02/01/25

From R.H. Blyth: “Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.”

Posted byKevin WarstadtFebruary 1, 2025Posted inUncategorizedTags:Buddhism, freedom, life, literature, meaning, philosophy, quotes, R.H. Blyth, religion, understanding, Zen Buddhism1 Comment on Quote of the day 02/01/25

Quote of the day 01/31/25

From Keats: “A poet is the most unpoetical thing in existence-because he has no identity. The setting sun will always set me to rights, and if a sparrow comes before my window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.”

Posted byKevin WarstadtJanuary 31, 2025Posted inUncategorizedTags:existence, Keats, life, nature, poet, poetry, quotes, understanding, zen, Zen BuddhismLeave a comment on Quote of the day 01/31/25

Quote of the day 01/28/25

From Unmon: “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.”

Posted byKevin WarstadtJanuary 28, 2025Posted inUncategorizedTags:eastern philosophy, effort, meaning, philosophy, poetry, quotes, understanding, Unmon, work, Zen BuddhismLeave a comment on Quote of the day 01/28/25

Quote of the day 01/27/25

From Nagarjuna: “I am not, I will not be.I have not, I will not have.This frightens all children,And kills fear in the wise.”

Posted byKevin WarstadtJanuary 27, 2025Posted inUncategorizedTags:being, Buddhism, eastern philosophy, fear, finitude, life, Nagarjuna, philosophy, quotes, understandingLeave a comment on Quote of the day 01/27/25

Quote of the day 01/24/25

From Marcus Aurelius: “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

Posted byKevin WarstadtJanuary 24, 2025Posted inUncategorizedTags:challenges, fear, inspiration, life, Marcus Aurelius, meaning, motivation, philosophy, quotes, stoicism, understandingLeave a comment on Quote of the day 01/24/25

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