Make it your practice to withdraw attention from past and future whenever they are not needed.
Eckhart Tolle
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“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.”
— Kahlil Gibran
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Every good book tastes astringent when it appears: it possesses the fault of newness. In addition it is harmed by its living author if he is celebrated and much is known about him: for all the world is accustomed to confound the author with his work. What there is of spirit, sweetness and goodness in the latter can evolve only over the years, under the care of growing, then established, finally traditional reverence. Many hours must pass over it, many a spider have spun her web on it. Good readers continually improve a book and good opponents clarify it.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Assorted Opinions and Maxims, 153
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...let them be wrong about you...there's nothing to prove...
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- A message from 23 nights temple -
“When you face yourself, you are just a lone dewdrop, nothing complicated.
Even if you have always carried sadness in your heart, if you keep going, your heart will finally awaken and you will attain enlightenment.”
-二十三夜堂からのメッセージ-
“自分を見つめるとき、自分とはただの一滴の露であり、複雑なものはない。
たとえ心の中にいつも悲しみを抱えていたとしても、進み続ければ、やがて心が目覚め、悟りを開くことができる。”
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Quote of the day...
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Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.
An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you otherwise. Perhaps this woman did not give them something for free, or at a discount. Perhaps too, that she refused to stand with them when they were wrong — or just stood up for something she felt was right. And also, it could be that some bitter women are envious of her, or that she rejected the advances of some very proud men.
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun
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Dreams are the whispers of your soul; listen closely and you shall find your way.
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“That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual finds himself when realization has tinctured and transmuted all attitudes and opinions. A wise man is one who has experienced wisdom, wisdom in this sense being a mystical experience.
First Principles of Philosophy
Manly P. Hall
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Never bestow honors and people won’t quarrel. Never prize rare treasures and people won’t steal. Never flaunt alluring things and people won’t be confused.
Laozi, Daodejing, Hinton tr. (Ch 3)
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..."to be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart"...
~Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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