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Words of Wisdom

"Everything is as it is. It has no name other than the name we give it. It is we who call it something; we give it a value. We say this thing is good or it's bad, but in itself, the thing is only as it is. It's not absolute; it's just as it is. People are just as they are."  -Ajahn Sumedho "Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them."  - Alan Watts. "All conditioned things are impermanent. Work out your own salvation with diligence."  - Buddha "One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield." - Buddha "The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there." -Yasutani Roshi "It's the journey of the program writing process, not so much the program writing, that creates the shift." - Paul Bowersox "Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."  -Unknown "Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts." - Unknown  "Now that I've shed my skin completely, One true reality alone exists."  "Once a program has been written it becomes the rule of our life until recognized and changed." -John C. Lilly "The knife does not cut itself, the finger does not touch itself,  the mind does not know itself, the eye does not see itself."  -Zen Proverb "Transcendence is not dependent on intellect."  -Paul Bowersox  "Only to the extent that a person exposes themselves over and over to annihilation, can that which is indestructible be found within them." -Karl Von Durkheim "The whole world is you. Yet you keep thinking there is something else."  -Hsueh-Feng  "You can be a white boy playing at being a shaman, or you can be a shaman making a difference in the world. It’s your choice." -Emery Forest "What needs for windows when there are no walls?"  -Rumi “You can never find fulfillment from something that is inherently unfulfilling."  -Colleen Deatsman “You cannot see the color of your own eyes without employing the use of a mirror."  -John Worthington  “A thing, because it’s familiar, remains unknown."  -Hegel  “We are the custodians of deep and ancient thresholds." -Heidegger “To grow is to change. To be perfect is to have changed often."  -John Henry Newman “The path of the enlightened one leaves no track—it is like the path of birds in the sky."  -Buddha “We must learn to see the world anew."  -Albert Einstein “Go in fear of abstractions. And when encountered, eliminate the abstraction of fear."  -Ezra Pound “Knowing the truth is fairly useless. Feeling it is profound. Living it makes all the difference."  -David Deida “I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in the body.  Then I realized who was telling me this."  -Emo Phillips “I see as much misery out of them moving to justify themselves as them that set out to do harm." -Doc Cochran “We do not err because truth itself is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance.  We err because it is more comfortable to do so."  -Alexander Solzenitsyn “Friend, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity."  -Rumi “Don’t mind him. He thinks his laws are the laws of the universe."  -Marc Antony in G.B. Shaw’s Antony and Cleopatra “Total truth is necessary. You must live by what you say."  -Neem Karoli Baba “He who swims against the stream, comes to the source."  -Gottfried Muller “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision to be the limits of the world."  -Schopenhauer “This world is but canvas to our imagination."  -Thoreau  “I don’t think a person should have two sides-a public and a private side. There should be no gap; that is not honest."  - The Dalai Lama “You are riding a horse and asking, “Where’s the horse?” Pay attention!"  -Ajahn Shah “Perform every act in your life as if it were your last."  -Marcus Aurelius “To fall into habit is to cease to be."  -Miguel deUnamung “Nothing can or has happened that is not of one’s own creation."  -Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami “I live in the now, where the ghosts of old wrongs do not abide."  -Captain Nemo  “What is to give light must endure burning." -Viktor Frankl “A person is not a thing or a process, but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest." -Heidegger “I know well enough what it is when I find a thing,” said the duck, “it is usually a frog or a worm.” - Lewis Carroll from Alice in Wonderland