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@divegeester said
Gosh; I guess copy pasting something which is actually real life meaningful by pop star Lionel Richie isn’t as cool as copy pasting ancient Buddhist sages from the Internet.

Nevermind.

@pianoman1 said
When we see that “I” is a mental construct—and a very shaky one at that—it becomes open to change. We might decide to do without it entirely once “I” no longer serves its purpose. “I” exists to convince you that you are a creature of virtual reality, and that going beyond the simulation isn’t possible, any more than a portrait can jump out of its frame. The reason we find o ...[text shortened]... ahuman cannot succeed unless it offers something more fulfilling than anything “I” holds out to us.”

"the tiger will see you a hundred times before you see the tiger"

a nameless dead man

“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.”

George Clooney

Like vanishing dew,
A passing apparition
Or the sudden flash of
Lightning, already gone,
Thus should one regard one’s self.

- Ikkyu (1394-1481)

@rookie54 said
Like vanishing dew,
A passing apparition
Or the sudden flash of
Lightning, already gone,
Thus should one regard one’s self.

- Ikkyu (1394-1481)

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify.
We do not want our ideas changed.
We feel threatened by such demands.
"I already know the important things!" we say.
Then Change comes and throws our old ideas away.

-The Zensufi Master

It is a patient pursuit to bring water from the depth of the ground;
one has to deal with much mud in digging before one reaches the water of life.

Bowl of Saki, November 2, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Reality has no form or shape.
The search for illusion ends in nothingness.
Reality and illusion make no difference.
They are identical, one and the same.

- Paeg-un (1299-1375)

Mind itself is the making of the Buddha.
What labor lost to seek outside!
Give it all up and take a good look:
The dead-end proves to be an
Impregnable fastness.

- T'aego (1301-1382)

@divegeester said
“You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.”

George Clooney

Words of wisdom vaguely spoken
From men dead so long ago
Give rise to dreamy notions
Of a void and empty cosmos

When the veil is finally lifted
And shadows flee from light
One will stand in perfect majesty
Drawing those who stood for right

Only one has perfect wisdom
Though many dare to speak
And few are they that listen
He gives to them who seek

SecondSon (1953- )

“He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”

Rudyard Kipling