From R.H. Blyth: “We cannot dare, then, to follow our instincts unless we have first entered into the state of death of all the other instincts. Then we can follow our Instincts. We can be like flowing water, like the changing moon.”
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Quote of the day 03/11/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Paradoxes are the bright banners of the liberty of the mind. They proclaim that the mind is free to bestow or withhold values.”
Quote of the day 02/09/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Man is born deaf, that is, not understanding the speech of others, so that he may follow his instincts and not be confused by words.”
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.”
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.”
Quote of the day 02/06/25
From Chomei: “The triple world is but one Mind. Outside the Mind there is no other reality; Mind, Buddha, all Sentient Creatures, – these three are not different things.”
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 02/04/25
From William Shakespeare: “There is some soul of goodness in things evil, would men observingly distill it out.”
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.”
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.”