Thought for the day IV

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Postby yat_chum » Sun Aug 23, 2009 3:56 am

"The tao that can be told
is not the eternal Tao.
The name that can be named
is not the eternal Name.
The unnameable is the eternally real.
Naming is the origin
of all particular things.
Free from desire, you realize the mystery.
Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations
arise from the same source.
This source is called darkness.
Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding."
Lao-Tse - Tao Te Ching
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Postby yat_chum » Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:52 am

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
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Postby yat_chum » Tue Aug 25, 2009 1:06 am

"Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof."
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)
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Postby yat_chum » Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:54 am

"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place."
Abigail Van Buren, 1978
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Postby yat_chum » Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:04 am

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:03 am

"Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it."
Robbie Gass
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Postby yat_chum » Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:13 pm

"Force without wisdom falls of its own weight."
Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes
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Postby yat_chum » Sun Aug 30, 2009 2:56 am

Romans 13:9-10 (New International Version)

9 The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet," and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself."
10 Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.
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Postby Inga » Mon Aug 31, 2009 5:42 am

Yat_Chum is having a hiatus from the computer, and he asked me to post his quotes for a short time. Here's the first one:

“Siu Lien Tau comes first; Do not force progress in training.”
Wing Chun Kuen saying

Thanks Jo for taking the time to find your quotes and put 'em up for us! Hurry back :)
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Postby Inga » Tue Sep 01, 2009 6:56 am

“Practice once a day, more will cause no harm.”

Wing Chun Kuen saying
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Postby Inga » Wed Sep 02, 2009 5:39 am

“Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.”

Mark Twain
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Postby Inga » Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:53 am

"The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don’t limit it."

John Eliot, Ph.D., Reverse Psychology for Success
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Postby Inga » Fri Sep 04, 2009 6:24 am

“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”

William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)
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Postby Inga » Sat Sep 05, 2009 6:42 am

"Perfection is a road, not a destination. Every time I live, I get an education."

Burk Hudson
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Postby Inga » Sun Sep 06, 2009 7:25 am

“This life, you must know
as the tiny splash of a raindrop.
A thing of beauty that disappears as it comes into being.
Therefore, set your goal.
Make use of every day and every night.”

Tibetan Buddhist - Tsongkhapa
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Postby Inga » Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:19 am

“Nana korobi, ya oki.” (Fall seven times, rise eight.)

Japanese Proverb
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Postby Inga » Tue Sep 08, 2009 8:05 am

“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.”

Dr. Laura Schlessinger
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Postby Inga » Wed Sep 09, 2009 6:46 am

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth."

Peter McWilliams, Life 101
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Postby Inga » Thu Sep 10, 2009 7:01 am

“You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.”

Elizabeth Aston, The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy, 2005
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Postby Inga » Fri Sep 11, 2009 6:56 am

“From one thing, know ten thousand things.”

Musashi Miyamoto, The Book of Five Rings
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