Tao Te Ching
The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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| Sage | Source | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| Karma Chagme Rinpoche I | Union of Mahamudra and Dzogchen | Without thinking of anything whatsoever, rest vividly awake in the practice of mind essence. |
| Chuang Tzu | With unbridled fancies, facetious language and sweet romantic nonsense, he [Chuang Tzu] gives free play to his spirit without restraint. He mingles with conventional society and does not despise the things of the universe or quarrel about what others regard as right and wrong. | |
| Mencius | Book of Mencius 孟子 | Why must Your Majesty use the word ‘profit’? Surely, it is true goodness and righteousness alone that matter. |
| Marcus Aurelius | Meditations Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν | When you start to criticize someone’s fault, ask yourself which of your own faults most closely resembles it. |
| Louise Erdrich | When we’re young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know people, the better I like ravens. | |
| Jianzhi Sengcan | Hsin Hsin Ming | When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. |
| Jakusho Kwong | No Beginning, No End: The Intimate Heart of Zen | When the focus of your practice becomes like the light of the sun penetrating a magnifying glass so sharply that it makes a fire, it dissolves greed, anger, and ignorance, the three great obstacles to our original heart/mind. |
| Gesshin Myoko Roshi | When I go to give a talk somewhere, I never know what I am going to say…. The purpose is not to teach them anything. It is to awaken them to their own inner reality. | |
| Su Shi | When a child is born, families want it to be intelligent. But through intelligence, I have only wrecked my whole life. So I can only hope the baby will prove ignorant and stupid; crown a tranquil life by becoming a Cabinet Minister. | |
| Gesshin Myoko Roshi | what people call beautiful is really just decay… How much greater is the beauty that is underneath the surface. | |
| Empedocles | On Nature | What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky. |
| Jonathan Swift | We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. | |
| Karl Popper | We do not choose political freedom because it promises us this or that. We choose it because it makes possible the only dignified form of human coexistence, the only form in which we can be fully responsible for ourselves. | |
| Mikhail Bakunin | We are firmly convinced that the most imperfect republic is a thousand times better than the most enlightened monarchy. In a republic, there are at least brief periods when the people, while continually exploited, is not oppressed; in the monarchies, oppression is constant. | |
| Virginia Woolf | Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? | |
| Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche | Try to give to others as much of the teachings as possible. Then you might be of some benefit and not waste your life. | |
| Shan Dao | Thomas Jefferson owned 5 Latin versions of De Rerum Natura as well as English, French and Italian translations. He said it was his favorite book and its main ideas infiltrated The Declaration of Independence—most notably that government should serve 'the pursuit of Happiness.' | |
| Jane Goodall | These cultural mind prisons. . . . have been crippling to human moral and spiritual growth… freedom of thought.. and clearly a barrier to world peace. So long as we continue to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the ‘global village’ we will propagate prejudice and ignorance. | |
| Madame Guyon | Autobiography of Madame Guyon | There was a period when I chose a time and place for prayer ... But now I seek constant prayer, in constant inward stillness |
| Zhu Xi | Four Books | There is no fixed shape to the preservation of perfect balance; it depends on the circumstances of the moment. |