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Sage | Source | Quote |
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Santayana, George | ||
Leonard Cohen | Beautiful Losers | |
James Hilton | Lost Horizon | |
Herman Melville | Moby Dick or The Whale | Old age is always wakeful; as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death. |
Bertrand Russell | To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it. | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Every book is a quotation, and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries, and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. | |
Joseph Campbell | Power of Myth | Read the right books by the right people. Read and read and read. Find an author who really grabs you, read everything he has done, and then read what he has read. |
Longchenpa | Kindly Bent to Ease Us, Trilogy of Finding Comfort and Ease ངལ་གསོ་སྐོར་གསུམ་ | Set out on the path to peace by being alert and mindful to the misery of chasing after the fame, fortune, pleasure, and power goals of a belief in a separate self. Quickly conquer this fictitious being and enjoy the feast of life's true meaning. |
Chögyam Trungpa | A Buddhist Approach to Politics | The idea in the Western world is bringing the Kingdom of God to earth, or trying `to create the ideal Jewish level which is really a poverty-stricken way of viewing it. As long as we condemn ourselves, no confidence can take place. People are bewildered and only rely on technicians, technocrats, theologians, politicians... |
J. D. Salinger | Franny and Zooey | You can say the Jesus Prayer from now til doomsday but if you don't realize that the only thing that counts in the religious life is detachment, I don't see how you'll ever even move an inch. Detachment, buddy, and only detachment. Desirelessness. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | All but the sacred few who could not tame | |
Jack Kerouac | Some of the Dharma | 'Not one or the other or both or neither' explains away all arbitrary conceptions |
Shan Dao | 'Selling our souls to the devil' is just a dramatic way of saying 'trading our time for money.' | |
Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | 'All right then,' said the savage defiantly, 'I'm claiming the right to be unhappy… the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat… the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind. I claim them all.' |
Huston Smith | World's Religions | 'Civilization' is seductive where not imperious |
Aldous Huxley | Brave New World | 'Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?' asked Bernard. The Savage nodded. 'I ate civilization.' |
Carl Jung | 'I live' becomes the objective 'it lives me'… In the Pauline Christ-symbol ('No longer do I live, but Christ liveth in me.') the deepest religious experience of the West and East meet. | |
Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche | 'I' is just a thought. | |
Jacob Needleman | 'Love thy neighbor as thyself' surely does not mean that as we are, with all that is in us of fear and hate, we can transmit the divine power of love to our fellowman. | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | 'Miracles have ceased.' Have they indeed? They had not ceased this afternoon when I walked into the wood and got into bright, miraculous sunshine, in shelter from the roaring wind. |