Thought for the day III

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Postby yat_chum » Sat May 17, 2008 3:17 am

"Don't always think in a straight line."
The Way of the Spear
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Postby yat_chum » Sun May 18, 2008 2:08 am

"The sun shines down,
and its image reflects a thousand
different pots filled with water.

The reflections are many,
but they are each reflecting the same sun.

Similarly, when we come to know who we truly are,
we will see ourselves in all people."
Amma
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Postby yat_chum » Mon May 19, 2008 1:44 am

"Do not throw the arrow which will return against you."
Kurdish Proverb
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Postby yat_chum » Tue May 20, 2008 2:06 am

"The good man is the teacher of the bad,
And the bad is the material from which the good may learn.
He who does not value the teacher,
Or greatly care for the material,
Is greatly deluded although he may be learned.
Such is the essential mystery."
Lao-Tzu (604 BC - 531 BC)
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Postby yat_chum » Wed May 21, 2008 1:22 am

"If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
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Postby joeblast » Wed May 21, 2008 6:09 am

"I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people - it's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you are just...howling with laughter!"
-John Cleese

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Postby yat_chum » Thu May 22, 2008 1:29 am

"Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter."
Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, September 26, 1712
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Postby yat_chum » Fri May 23, 2008 1:20 am

"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."
Bob Newhart
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Postby yat_chum » Sat May 24, 2008 2:26 am

"Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion."
The Talmud
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Postby yat_chum » Sun May 25, 2008 2:38 am

"Knowledge and understanding from science,
Insight and vision from poetry,
Joy and ecstasy from music,
Love and warmth from relationships,
Laughter and mirth from humor,
Inner peace and spiritual fulfillment from religion.
All, because we are conscious beings.

We receive a little of each during a slice of temporal eternity
in the patch of space wherein we live and die.

For this, I am grateful to the Unfathomable Mystery to whose existence,
evolution and cultural upbringing have made me sensitive."

Enrichment from different sources - V. V. Raman - August 2002
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Postby yat_chum » Mon May 26, 2008 1:27 am

"One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests."
John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)
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Postby yat_chum » Tue May 27, 2008 1:25 am

"Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results."
Jerry Flint, in Forbes
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Postby yat_chum » Wed May 28, 2008 1:36 am

"You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another."
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, What I Know For Sure, January 2004
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Postby yat_chum » Thu May 29, 2008 1:59 am

"While there's life, there's hope."
Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC), Ad Atticum
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Postby yat_chum » Fri May 30, 2008 1:19 am

"Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others."
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Postby yat_chum » Sat May 31, 2008 2:16 am

"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance."
Anonymous
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Jun 01, 2008 1:51 am

"Know other creatures' love for life,
For they are like you.
Kill them not; save their life from fear and enmity.

All creatures desire to live, not to die.
Hence to kill is to sin.
A godly man does not kill.
Therefore, kill not yourself, consciously or
Unconsciously, living organisms which move
Or move not, nor cause slaughter of them.

He who looketh on the creatures of the earth,
Big and small, as his own self, comprehendeth this immense world.
Among the careless, he who restraineth self is enlightened."
Ahimsa Parmo Dharma - Jain prayer of nonviolence
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:00 am

"The best defense is not to involve oneself in conflicts."
Mestre Pastinha
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Jun 03, 2008 1:17 am

"When you leave home, think you have numerous opponents waiting for you. It is your behaviour that invites trouble from them."
Master Gichin Funakoshi
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:26 am

"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."
Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
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