Tao Te Ching
The Power of Goodness, the Wisdom Beyond Words
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| Sage | Source | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick or The Whale | There is all the difference in the world between paying and being paid. |
| Kabīr | There are no wise mega-rich people - who could look out upon this world and hoard what could nourish a thousand souls. | |
| Krishnamurti | The very perception of seeing what is false is the truth. | |
| Virginia Woolf | The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. | |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | Thus Spoke Zarathustra | The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything. |
| Warren Bennis | The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. | |
| William Blake | The crow wished everything was black, the Owl, that everything was white. | |
| Henry James | Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. | |
| David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies… Who can say where the cloud’s blowed from or who the soul’ll be ‘morrow?… only the atlas o’ clouds. |
| Jean Giono | Society tries to focus us on distant goals making it easy for us to forget that our only goal is to live, to live each and every day | |
| Will (and Ariel) Durant | Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. | |
| Lao Tzu | Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss. | |
| Kaṅkaṇa | Masters of Mahamudra | Realization of mind’s nature is the king. |
| Mingyur Rinpoche | Realization – the stable awareness of the true nature of your mind – is like the sky itself, an unchanging background against which shifting experience occur. | |
| Augustine | Patience is the companion of wisdom. | |
| Shunryu Suzuki Roshi | Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind | Only when you give up everything can you see a true teacher. Even the name of Buddhism is already a dirty spot on our practice. It is not teaching. The character and effort of our teachers is our teaching. |
| Santayana, George | Only the dead have seen the end of war | |
| Hóngzhì Zhēngjué | Cultivating the Emplty Field | Only in silent serenity is the self known, full spirited in its own glory, no stranger to sages and not diminished with worldly people. |
| Zhu Xi | Four Books | Only by carefully considering each set of circumstances, and following what’s called for by those circumstances can one act in accord with the appropriate course of action. |
| Machiavelli | The Prince | Only a good leader understands the nature of the people; only the people understand the true nature of the leader. |