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Sage | Source | Quote |
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Tilopa | Don’t recall, don’t imagine, don’t think, don’t examine, don’t control, rest. | |
Atisha | Don’t transfer the cow’s load to the ox. | |
Buddha | Don’t treat others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful. | |
Buddha | Doubt everything. Find your own light. | |
Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet | Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one. | |
Will (and Ariel) Durant | Doubtless like all of us he was many men, turned on one or another of his selves as occasion required, and kept his real self a frightened secret from the world. | |
Emily Dickinson | Dwell in possibility. | |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Each existence depends on something else. Strictly speaking, there are just many names for one existence… We have nowhere to escape… That is why we emphasize everyday life rather than some particular state of mind. We should find the reality in each moment, and in each phenomenon. | |
William Blake | Each man must create his own system or else he is a slave to another mans. | |
Mark Twain | Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society. | |
Novalis | Educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite. | |
Plutarch | Education and study confer no greater benefit than learn to avoid the wildness of extremes. | |
Will (and Ariel) Durant | Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. | |
Mark Twain | Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. | |
Mark Twain | Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty. | |
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | effort in our practice should be directed from achievement to non-achievement | |
Chögyam Trungpa | Either you look and see beyond language – as first perception – or you see the world through the filter of your thoughts. | |
Hóngzhì Zhēngjué | Empty, cold and thin, simple and genuine.. when you turn within and drop off everything completely, realization occurs… Every detail clearly appears before you. Sound and form, echo and shadow, happen instantly without leaving traces. | |
Homer | Empty words are evil. | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Envy is ignorance, imitation is Suicide. |