Tao Te Ching

The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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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.