Idle Reading.

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greetings all,
i have been reading all the posts and keeping up with things, thanks for
all the insights everybody shares.

thanks aaron for the pics, i found them breath taking..i can imagine
how you felt seeing the sight yourself and i thank you for taking time
to share them with the group.those pictures convey how small we really
are..i have been out in the ocean, with no land in sight, surrounded by
water, i felt pretty small right then, but yet at perfect ease with my
surroundings. yeap, sometimes a picture is worth a 1000 words.


recently, i have been attacked by my own egos, about if i was
beginning to lose my sanity, especially when i try to explain david's
site to other people. i guess most people would rather stay asleep then
stop to see the truth..but anyways, when i was in a time of doubt i
stumbled across this website with a bunch of wisdom quotes from some
great thinkers and a lot of it can be found in the book of one and
re enforced my sanity (even if i am the only one that views me as sane
:)

peace~
troy

here are some of the quotes , it's rather long but it's good reading.







accordance
"when your intent is in accordance with the universe, things start
happening.".
- author unknown

appearances
"appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden." +..(n).9-00
- anaxagoras

arriving
"a good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
- lao tzu

art
"the high mission of any art is, by its illusions, to foreshadow a
higher universe reality, to crystallize the emotions of time into the
thought of eternity."..(n).9-00
- author unknown

astrology
"we are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years
of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we
are born. astrology does not lay claim to anything more.".+
- carl gustav jung

astrology
"the stars incline, but do not impel."
- robert heinlein

attention
"the greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your
attention."..
- richard moss

awaken
"your vision will become clear only when you look into your mind ... who
looks outside, dreams. who looks inside awakens." +
- author unknown

awareness
"life is so short we must move very slowly.".+
- thai saying

beauty
"beauty is not caused. it is.".+
- emily dickinson

beauty
"heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal."
- dante a.

beauty
"everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.".+
- confucius

being
"a mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the
ultimate, and with this understanding there is a new dimension: the
dimension of being."
- osho

beliefs
"beliefs are dangerous. beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. a
non-functioning mind is clinically dead. believe in nothing... "
+..(n).9-00
- author unknown

believe
"believe nothing merely because you have been told it. do not believe
what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. but
whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind,
conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that
doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide."
- the buddha

beyond
"if you seek the kernel, then you must break the shell. and likewise, if
you would know the reality of nature, you must destroy the appearance,
and the further you go beyond the appearance the nearer you will be to
the essence."
- meister eckhart

beyond polarity
"when there is no more separation between 'this' and 'that,' it is
called the still-point of the tao. at the still point in the center of
the circle one can see the infinite in all things.".+
- chuang tzu

"you are all the buddha.".+
- last words of the buddha

cause & effect
"what you are is what you have been, and what you will be is what you do
now.".+
- the buddha

cause & effect
"the future depends on what we do in the present."
- mahatma gandhi

change
"change your thoughts and you change your world."
- norman vincent peale

change
"everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing
himself.".+
- leo tolstoy

change
"in wisdom we acknowledge that everything changes. what is born will
die. what dies nourishes life in its many forms.".(n).9-00
- patricia lynn reilly

clinging
"do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage,
even to the idea of enlightenment."
- osho

color
"i am color."
- paul klee

compassion
"a human being is a part of the whole, called by us universe, a part
limited in time and space. he experiences himself, his thoughts and
feelings as something separated from the rest-a kind of optical delusion
of his consciousness. this delusion is a kind of prison, restricting us
to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to
us. our task must be to free from this prison by widening our circle of
compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its
beauty."
- albert einstein

compassion
"until he extends his circle of compassion to all living things, man
will not himself find peace.".+
- albert schweitzer
compassion
"real compassion does not arise from an over-emotional gut blocking the
brain, but from a clean clear mind melting into the heart." (t)
- hans taeger

contemplation
"all things considered, wisdom requires not only the investigation of
many things, but contemplation of the mystery."
- jeremy narby

convention
"the eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend."
- henri bergson

count
"one should count each day a separate life."..(n).9-00
- seneca

creativeness
"most people die before they are fully born. creativeness means to be
born before one dies."..(n).9-00
- erich fromm

dark
"an age is called dark, not because the light fails to shine, but
because people refuse to see it.".+
- james a. michener

darkness
"you live through the darkness from what you learned in the light."
- hope macdonald

dark/light
"if we are unwilling to be aware of the dark, we cannot see the light."
- john cowan

death
"people sleep, and when they die, they awake.".+
- mohammed

death
"...death is only an horizon, and an horizon is only the limit of our
sight. open our eyes to see more clearly...".+
- william penn

death
"for those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force.
the highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and
study of death."
- e. kãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ã ƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ãƒâ ƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚â¼bler-ross

death/awakening
"we sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a
troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death."
- nathaniel hawthorne

death/birth
"after your death you will be what you were before your birth."
- arthur schopenhauer

dependent arising
"all things appear and disappear because of the concurrence of causes
and conditions. nothing ever exists entirely alone; everything is in
relation to everything else.".+
- the buddha

dependent arising
"because there are no phenomena which are not dependent arisings, there
are no phenomena which are not void."..(n).9-00
- nagarjuna

describing
"just as the mute person has trouble describing the taste of sugar, we
have trouble describing the nature of mind."..(n).9-00
- kalu rinpoche

desires
"the greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.".+
- seneca

direction
"the mind's direction is more important than its progress."..(n).9-00
- joseph joubert

doing
"to do is to be."
- socrates
"to be is to do."
- plato
"the way to do is to be.".+
- lao-tzu

doubt
"doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can
enter into the temple of wisdom.".+
- colton
doubt
"doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith."
- paul johannes tillich
doubt
"doubt is part of all religion. all the religious thinkers were
doubters.".+
- isaac bashevis

dream/reality
"reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy
reality?".+
- george moore
earth
"what was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set
foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth." +
- norman cousins

ego
"the ego is the ugly troll that lives underneath the bridge between your
mind and your heart.".+
- dennis miller

ego-transcendence
"what we call 'i' is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and
when we exhale. when your mind is... calm enough to follow this
movement, there is nothing, no world, no mind nor body, just a swinging
door."
- pema chodron

empty
"the empty vessel makes the greatest sound.".+
- author unknown

end
"seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end
of the ocean." +..(n) 9-00
- david searls

enlightenment
"to study the buddha way is to study the self. to study the self is to
forget the self. to forget the self is to be enlightened by the ten
thousand things"..+
- dogen lenji

enlightenment
"enlightenment cannot be described, only experienced."
- author unknown

enlightenment
"you may have expected that enlightenment would come zap! instantaneous
and permanent. this is unlikely. after the first "ah ha" experience, it
can be thought of as the thinning of a layer of clouds..."
- ram dass
enlightenment/

ego
"the attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme
death.".+
- chãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ ãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ムâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚â¶gyam trungpa

eternity
"everything is changeable, everything appears and disappears; there is
no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death."
- the buddha

evolution
"the collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of
mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every
individual."
- c.g. jung

examination
"the unexamined life is not worth living."
- plato

experience
"religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be
incomprehensible to others."
- william o. douglas
experience
"what each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. it is
something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something
that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone
else."
- joseph campell

explore
"we shall not cease from exploration - and the end of all our exploring
- will be to arrive where we started - and know the place for the first
time."
- t. s. eliot

fantasy
"fantasy is the ability to think in pictures."..(n).9-00
- mari
fear
"who sees all beings in his own self, and his own self in all beings,
loses all fear.".+
- the upanishads
fears
"fear is the process of the mind in the struggle of becoming. in
becoming good there is the fear of evil; in becoming complete, there is
the fear of loneliness."
- krishnamurti

free yourself
"emancipate yourself from mental slavery. none but ourselves can free
our minds."
- bob marley

friends
"there are friendships merely for pleasure, some for the exchange of
ideas. rarest are those friends of one's inmost self."
- balthasar gracian

genius
"to believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in
your heart is true for all men - that is genius."
- ralph waldo emerson

good
"if people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for
reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."..(n).9-00
- albert einstein

good pilot
"the mind is very powerful. therefore, it requires firm guidance. a
powerful jet plane needs a good pilot; the pilot of your mind should be
the wisdom that understands its nature."..(n).9-00
- lama thubten yeshe

happiness
"perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.".+
- chuang-tse
hate
"if you hate a person, you hate something in him that is a part of
yourself. what isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."..(n).9-00
- herman hesse

heart
"the head doesn't hear unless the heart desires to listen."
- author unknown
heart/mind
"the heart has its reasons that the mind knows nothing of."
- blaise pascal
hidden
"anything visible is a mask, anything hidden is real.".+
- author unknown

illusion
"we practise illusory practise in an illusory way, in order to reach
illusory enlightenment and deliver illusory beings from suffering.".+
- khyungpo naljyor, foundation for the preservation of the mahayana
tradition

illusion
"all that we see or seen is but a dream within a dream.".+
- edgar allan poe

imagination
"the world is but a canvas to the imagination."..(n).9-00
- henry david thoreau

impermanence
"we completely deny the existence of a self-existent i, or a permanent,
independent soul. every aspect of your body and mind is impermanent:
changing, changing, changing... "..(n).9-00
- lama thubten yeshe
impossible
"the limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them
into the impossible."..(n).9-00
- arthur c. clarke
infinite
"if the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to
man as it is, infinite. for man has closed himself up, till he sees all
things through narrow chinks of his cavern."
- william blake

infinite library
"the infinite library of the universe is in your mind.".+
- swami vivekananda

insanity
"insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane
world."..(n).9-00
- r. d. laing

inside
"we carry with us the wonders we seek without us.".+
- sir thomas browne
instinct
"instinct is the nose of the mind.".+
- madame de girardin

interdependence
"all phenomena exist interdependently. their being is dependent on their
parts and attributes. a flower, a tree, or a human being all exist
interdependently, relying on their causes, circumstances, attributes and
parts. our happiness, suffering, growth and degeneration all exist on
the basis of an interdependent relationship of causes and
circumstances."..(n).9-00
- geshe rabten
kindness
"kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is
the beginning of wisdom."
- theodore i. rubin

knowledge/wisdom
"...knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. but wisdom comes
by putting things together...".+
- john morrison

knowing
"he who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool - avoid
him.
he who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep - waken him. he
who knows not and knows that he knows not wants beating - beat him.
he who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man - know him."
- author unknown
life
"life is but a journey; death is returning home."
- chinese proverb
life
"life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved."..(n).9-00
- van kaam

light
"people are like stained-glass windows. they sparkle and shine when the
sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed
only if there is a light from within."..(n).9-00
- elizabeth kãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ã ƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ãƒâ ƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚â¼bler-ross
logic
"pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.".+
- antoine de saint-exupãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚ â‚ãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚âƒãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ ãƒâƒã‚âƒãƒâ‚ã‚â‚ãƒâƒã‚â‚ãƒâ‚ã‚â©ry
long before
"we choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them."
+..(n).9-00
- kahlil gibran
lost self
"at the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning
for union with one's lost self."..(n).9-00
- brendan francis

mind
"your mind is your religion." +..(n).9-00
- lama thubten yeshe

mind
"when we speak of mind, we speak of something that is not a thing in
itself. in its most fundamental sense, mind is not something we can
limit. we cannot say it has a particular shape, size or location, color
or form, or any other limiting characteristic."..
- kalu rinpoche

mind-control
"it is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the
west; they originate within one's own mind. therefore, it is foolish to
guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner
mind uncontrolled."
- the buddha

music
"music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life."..(n).9-00
- ludwig von beethoven
music
"any musical innovation is full of danger to the whole state... when
modes of music change, the state always changes with them."..(n).9-00
- plato
mysterious
"the most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the
fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true
science.". +
- a. einstein

mysteries/mind
"let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not
the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind."
- francis bacon

mystery/science
"science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. and it is because
in the last analysis we ourselves are part of the mystery we are trying
to solve.".+
- max planck

mystical
"the mystical is not how the world is, but that it is.".+
- ludwig wittgenstein

non-being
"health is the greatest possession. contentment is the greatest
treasure. confidence is the greatest friend. non-being is the greatest
joy.".+
- the dhammapada

one in all <>
"one moon shows in every pool; in every pool, the one moon."
- zen saying

order
"the world is not to be put in order, the world is order incarnate. it
is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order."
- henry miller
order/chaos
"without order nothing can exist - without chaos nothing can evolve.".+
- author unknown

paid
"all paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." +..(n).9-00
- aristoteles
paradox truth
"the reverse side also has a reverse side.".+
- japanese proverb
patience
"muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.".+
- lao-tse

patience
"genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience."
- georges louis leclerc de buffon
patience
"patience is the companion of wisdom.".+
- st. augustine

patience
"the most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and
to watch someone else doing it wrong, without comment." +..(n).9-00
- theodore h. white
peace
"we can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world
and don't make peace with ourselves. world peace must develop out of
inner peace."
- the dalai lama

peace
"if there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. if
there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. if
there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. if
there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world."
- chinese proverb
presence
"let the clock and the earth do their own thing... let the comings and
goings of life continue... but you stay here and now. this exercise is
to bring you to the eternal present where it all is."
- ram dass

pureness
"our mind is composed of many factors, both positive and negative, but
the essential nature of the mind is pure. it is like a nugget of pure
gold covered with many layers of dirt."..(n).9-00
- geshe rabten


quantum mechanics
"if quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't
understood it yet."..(n).9-00
- niels bohr

quiet
"only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. only in a
quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.".+
- hans margolius

religious feeling
"i maintain the cosmic religious feeling is the strongest and noblest
motive for scientific research."
- albert einstein

respect
"follow the three rs: respect for self, respect for others and
responsibility for all your actions." +..(n).9-00
- the dalai lama

science
"science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound
source of spirituality."
- carl sagan

science
"science without religion is lame. religion without science is blind."
- albert einstein
science/religion
"for the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason,
the story ends like a bad dream. he has scaled the mountains of
ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself
over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have
been sitting there for centuries.".+
- robert jastrow

seeing
"the eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing."
+..(n).9-00
- publilius syrus
"the self is a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference
is nowhere.".+
- c.g. jung
self
"the whole problem is to establish communication with one's self."
- e.b. white

self
"the all knowing self was never born, nor will it die. beyond cause and
effect, this self is eternal and immutable. when the body dies, the self
does not die. if the slayer believes that he can kill, and the slain
believes that he can be killed, neither knows the truth. the eternal
self slays not, nor is ever slain."
- the upanishads
self
"he who knows others is wise. he who knows himself is enlightened."
- lao tzu
self
"there's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of
improving, and that's your own self."..(n).9-00
- aldous huxley

self-confidence
"be a lamp to yourself. be your own confidence. hold to the truth within
yourself, as to the only truth."
- the buddha
self-education
"self-education is, i firmly believe, the only kind of education there
is." +..(n).9-00
- isaac asimov

sky
"the nature of mind is like empty space, like the sky, which at present
is filled with clouds and fog and mist and periodically has all kinds of
activity such as hailstorms, snowstorms, rainstorms and thunder and
lightning." +..(n).9-00
- kalu rinpoche
solitude
"solitude is the beginning of all freedom."
- william o. douglas
stars
"a billion stars go spinning through the night, blazing high above your
head. but in you is the presence that will be, when all the stars are
dead."..(n) 9-00
- r. m. rilke

teach
"you cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it
within himself."..(n).9-00
- galileo
teacher
"a great teacher never strives to explain his vision - he simply invites
you to stand beside him and see for yourself."
- r. inman

thinking
"we are what we think. all that we are arises with our thoughts. with
our thoughts, we make the world.".+
- the buddha

thinking
"when the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself." +
- plato

thoughts
"we are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. when the mind
is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves." +..(n).9-00
- the buddha

time
"if nothing happened, if nothing changed, time would stop. for time is
nothing but change. it is change we see occurring all around us, not
time. in fact, time doesn't exist."
- julian barbour
uncertainty
"uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. don't let them scare you
unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity."
- r. i. fitzhenry

unconsciousness
"the unconscious is the only available source of religious experience.
this in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious is
identical with god or is set up in his place. it is simply the medium
from which religious experience seems to flow. as to what the further
cause of such experience might be, the answer to this lies beyond the
range of human knowledge."
- c. g. jung

unconsciousness
"the unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity
which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment
go, is completely neutral.it only becomes dangerous when our conscious
attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. to the degree that we repress it,
its danger increases."
- c. g. jung

unconsciousness
"the unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time
unrecorded.".+
- c. g. jung
"he, knowing all, becomes the all.".+
- the upanishads

unity
"the fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that i am here and
you are there."
- yasutani roshi

universal design
"there is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on
behind it all.... it seems as though somebody has fine-tuned nature's
numbers to make the universe... the impression of design is
overwhelming".
- paul davies

universal design
"the laws [of physics] ... seem to be the product of exceedingly
ingenious design... the universe must have a purpose".
- paul davies

universal love
"love is the most universal, the most tremendous and the most mysterious
of the cosmic forces.".+
- pierre teilhard de chardin
universal mind
"the idea of a universal mind or logos would be, i think, a fairly
plausible inference from the present state of scientific theory."
- arthur eddington

universal mind
"know thyself, and thou shalt know the universe."
- socrates

universe
"an infinite universe is at each moment opened to our view. and this
universe is the sign and symbol of infinite power, intelligence, purity,
bliss, and love."
- william ellery channing

universe
"if you seek to understand the whole universe you will understand
nothing at all but seek to understand yourself and you will understand
the the whole universe."..(n).9-00
- druidic axiom

universe
"if you tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe, he'll
believe you. but if you tell him a parkbench has just been painted, he
has to touch it to be sure." +..(n).9-00
- lynn

unlimited mind
"the mind of man is capable of anything -- because everything is in it,
all the past as well as the future."
- joseph conrad

unpretentiousness
"my belief is that to have no wants is divine.".+
- socrates

view
"we think too small. like the frog at the bottom of the well. he thinks
the sky is only as big as the top of the well. if he surfaced, he would
have an entirely different view."
- mao tse-tung

voidness
"as soon as one's mind is known to be of the wisdom of the voidness,
concepts like good and evil karma cease to exist. seek, therefore, thine
own wisdom within thee. it is the vast deep." +..(n).9-00
- guru padmasambhava

"wisdom begins in wonder.".+
- socrateswonder
"the invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common."
- ralph waldo emerson

wonder
"i would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief."
+..(n).9-00
- gerry spence

words
"words were invented to describe inner and outer pictures and feelings
which go ahead with them. in using words we all become magicians, movie
directors or sound artists, creating a powerful caleidoscope of
picturesque landscapes and imaginations. some find this natural. i find
it highly magical and mystical.".(t).(n)