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15th December 06:19
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I love my proverbs (very long and pointless) (down heart tongue lips)
All from some site where I subscribed to recieve proverbs in my e-mail. What
that site is I cannot remember nor can I find again to subscribe again since
my e-mail address changed =/
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Nature seals her promise of spring in white.
Not *****ness, not matted locks, not dirt or fasting or sleeping on the bare
earth, or sitting motionless can purify a man who has not overcome his
doubts.
The kingdom of heaven is here and now.
Love is the secret key: it opens the door of the divine.
The dawn does not come twice to awaken a man.
If there is ever the height of a mountain between us, I will learn to climb.
The raft of knowledge ferries the worst sinner to safety.
Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance.
To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.
Beauty and her twin brother Truth require leisure and self control for their
growth.
Time is a great story teller.
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.
Wisdom is the accurate application of accurate knowledge for the greatest
good.
The whole world is a dream, and death the interpreter.
The moon is not shamed by the barking of dogs.
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.
With all things and in all things, we are relatives.
The ultimate transcendental reality is held to lie beyond the grasp of
intellectual comprehension and verbal expression.
The Mystery of mysteries is the Door of all essence. - Tao Teh Ching
The corners of a house can be seen, but those of a heart cannot. - Maori
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. - John
Barrymore
Overcome your uncertainties and free yourself from dwelling on sorrow; if
you delight in existence, you will become a guide to those who need you,
revealing the path to many. - Sutta Nipata
What was is no more, what if is just if. - Maltese
Love burns, in driftwood fire, those splintered hopes of past desire that we
may feel our way along the night's rocky shore. - Rosicrucian
Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees. - Mark Twain
Meditation is neither a journey in space nor a journey in time, but an
instantaneous awakening. - J. Krishnamurti
We are all one child spinning through Mother Sky. - Shawnee (Native
American)
The wound of the arrow heals; the wound of the tongue festers. - Turkish
Thou canst not gather what thou dost no sow; as thou dost plant the tree so
it will grow.
- Hinduism
The beauty remains; the pain passes. - Renoir
Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change. - Confucius
By all means make friends with the dog, but do not lay aside the stick.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then
choose that way with all his strength.
Great squareness has no corners.
Poverty is the child of greed.
We must learn to live together as brothers and sisters, or we shall perish
together like fools.
The passion of a heedless man grows like a creeper, and he runs from life to
life, like a monkey seeking fruit in the forest.
See simplicity in the complicated, achieve greatness in little things.
You have come here to find what you already have.
There is one whom you may call your own, and that is God.
If you want to know your past life, look into your present condition; if you
want to know your future, look into your present action.
Beyond our bias of the visible spectrum is a great learning.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves.
There are things the immortals do, that mortals cannot know.
You should ceaselessly affirm, with every breath, every heartbeat, every
action and intention: I am freedom from every limitation, I am the principle
of timeless awareness.
The one who tells the stories rules the world.
What proceeds from you will return to you.
There is no fire like passion; there is no evil like hatred; there is no
pain like this body; there is no happiness greater than peace.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
A good soldier is a poor scout.
The non-doing of any evil, the performance of what's skillful, the cleansing
of one's own mind: this is the teaching of the Awakened.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The future is the harvest of our chosen possibilities.
A monk can be very gentle, very peaceful, while there are no hard words to
assail him, but when hard words are directed at him, it is then that he must
be really gentle and peaceful.
Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
The ruins of time build mansions in Eternity.
Indulging the consciousness of being good is the way to lose that goodness;
being vain of one's ability is the way to lose it.
Your focus determines your reality.
The sun does not charge for the warmth of its rays.
A single word may ruin an enterprise, and a single man may pacify the state.
The life of day before yesterday has departed today.
He who is not satisfied with himself will grow; he who is not sure of his
own correctness will learn many things.
The Collective dream is the cornerstone of reality.
God bides hidden in the hearts of all.
Writing is the mother of eloquence and the father of artists.
To put what you like against what you dislike is the hanky-panky of the
mind.
The sages ramble in the vacancy of untroubled ease, find their food in the
fields of indifference, and stand in the gardens which they had not
borrowed.
Learn to discern.
Those who know do not say, and those who say, do not know.
Love is an escalator of Light, the higher we go the more we glow.
Even if the water falls drop by drop, it will fill the pot; and the fool
will become full of evil, even though he gathers it little by little.
The sun illuminates the world; knowledge illuminates a man.
He who sows the wind harvests the storm.
Every thought is a prayer.
A horse that resists the reins, a car without brakes and a person with no
self-control, are all equally headed for disaster.
He who looks outside, dreams; he who looks inside, awakens.
The world lives on hope.
Long is the night to him who is wakeful; long is the mile to him who is
tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.
We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.
Plunge into the din of battle, but leave your heart at the lotus feet of
God.
Regard Heaven as your father, Earth as your Mother and all things as your
Brothers and Sisters.
In the minds of the generous contentment is produced.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Conquer your foe by anger and you will increase his anger; conquer by love
and you will reap no after-sorrow.
When a boy becomes a man, he stops shooting at the stars with a slingshot.
If you derive pleasure from the good which you do, and grieved by the evil
which you commit, you are a true believer.
No matter how far you've gone down the wrong road, turn back.
The most beautiful thing a man can do is to f****ve wrong.
Knowledge is riches, what one learns in youth is engraved in stone.
The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
Quantum particles are the dreams that stuff is made of.
The heavens and the earth cannot contain me, but the heart of my believing
servant does contain me.
Only the ignorant man becomes angry, the wise man understands.
The mind is host, the body guest.
An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.
Immediate are the acts of God, more swift than time or motion.
My song is my striving, my striving is my song.
When house and land are gone, then learning is most excellent.
A good example is the tallest kind of preaching.
Indulging in one's desires in the hope of transcending them is like
attempting to extinguish a fire by pouring kerosene on it.
Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.
Not twice this day; inch time, foot gem.
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
The obstacle is the path.
Consistently beautiful thoughts constitute the master key to the treasury of
the heart.
A multitude of stars may be obscured by a small dark cloud.
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom
to listen.
What we are looking for, is what is looking.
Sometimes I go about pitying myself, and all the time I am being carried on
great wings across the sky.
By acting without attachment a man reaches what is far away.
Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is
perilous.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without
trials.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our
thoughts and is made up of our thoughts
When we understand the sun, our love will warm the earth.
Sorrow unexperienced, happiness cannot be tasted.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Everything the same; everything distinct.
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"Do not try to interject logic into my rambling."
-Ethan Hammond from the PS NG
~Only the ignorant man becomes angry, the wise man understands.~
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