Daily Wisdom Saying - Page 4

Pathless · 02-08-2004, 02:10 AM

This is an excerpt from a poem entilted 'White Roses' by contemporary American poet John Ashbery. I find it Zen-like.

"...Nothing can be harmed! Night and day are beginning again!
So put away the book,
The flowers you were keeping to give someone:
Only the white, tremendous foam of the street has any importance,
The new white flowers that are beginning to shoot up about now."

Susma Rio Sep · 02-08-2004, 07:28 AM

White missionaries bring dollars with them to the East;
Men from the East draped in orange reap dollars in the West.

-- Cynicus Anonymus

Susma Rio Sep

Pathless · 02-09-2004, 05:38 PM

"The process that we call 'thinking' is in fact nothing more than an ongoing review of our personal history. There is only One Mind; only One Thinker. We can consciously be One with It or we can continue to be historians."

--Alan Watts

Pathless · 02-09-2004, 05:40 PM

"But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know."

--Alan Watts

Vajradhara · 02-12-2004, 04:12 PM

I like reality. It tastes of bread.

-Jean Anouilh

Pathless · 02-13-2004, 12:27 AM

"Do or do not. There is no try."

--Yoda

Susma Rio Sep · 02-13-2004, 03:20 AM

Blood is the same: black, white, blue, red, yellow;
Only hatred makes it dark.

--- Cynicus Anonymus

Susma Rio Sep

juantoo3 · 02-13-2004, 04:55 AM

“My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God." -Proverbs 2:1-5 KJV

juantoo3 · 02-13-2004, 05:18 AM

"Never eat at a place called "Mom's", never play cards with a man named Doc, and never ever lie down with a woman who has more problems than you do." -Algren's precepts

juantoo3 · 02-13-2004, 05:23 AM

"When you are up to your arse in alligators, it is difficult to remind yourself that your initial objective was to drain the swamp." -Alligator Principle

Also stated-

"Those who are most moral are farthest from the problem." -Alinsky's Rule For Radicals

Pathless · 02-13-2004, 01:46 PM

"When you love you should not say, 'God is in my heart,' but rather, 'I am in the heart of God.'"

--Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

juantoo3 · 02-13-2004, 09:32 PM

"I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy." -Fred Allen's Motto

juantoo3 · 02-13-2004, 09:34 PM

A toast:

Champagne to my real friends,
And real pain to my sham friends!

-Spooner

juantoo3 · 02-14-2004, 10:27 AM

My Karma ran over my Dogma.

Kaldayen · 02-14-2004, 04:38 PM

A discussion about "Jesus walking on water" shouldn't be followed by another one about "Searching for Jesus".

(juantoo3, I love your last one

)

Kal

02-08-2004, 02:10 AM	#46 (permalink)
Pathless gone away Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Earth Posts: 2,065	'White Roses' This is an excerpt from a poem entilted 'White Roses' by contemporary American poet John Ashbery. I find it Zen-like. "...Nothing can be harmed! Night and day are beginning again! So put away the book, The flowers you were keeping to give someone: Only the white, tremendous foam of the street has any importance, The new white flowers that are beginning to shoot up about now."

02-08-2004, 07:28 AM	#47 (permalink)
Susma Rio Sep Executive Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 817	Change of dollars White missionaries bring dollars with them to the East; Men from the East draped in orange reap dollars in the West. -- Cynicus Anonymus Susma Rio Sep

02-13-2004, 03:20 AM	#52 (permalink)
Susma Rio Sep Executive Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 817	Blood is the same everywhere. Blood is the same: black, white, blue, red, yellow; Only hatred makes it dark. --- Cynicus Anonymus Susma Rio Sep

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juantoo3 ~~~~~~~~~ Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Gator Country, FL, USA Posts: 3,828	“My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God." -Proverbs 2:1-5 KJV

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juantoo3 ~~~~~~~~~ Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Gator Country, FL, USA Posts: 3,828	"Never eat at a place called "Mom's", never play cards with a man named Doc, and never ever lie down with a woman who has more problems than you do." -Algren's precepts

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Pathless gone away Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Earth Posts: 2,065	"When you love you should not say, 'God is in my heart,' but rather, 'I am in the heart of God.'" --Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

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juantoo3 ~~~~~~~~~ Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Gator Country, FL, USA Posts: 3,828	"I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy." -Fred Allen's Motto

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juantoo3 ~~~~~~~~~ Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Gator Country, FL, USA Posts: 3,828	My Karma ran over my Dogma.

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Kaldayen Spiritual ronin Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Montreal, Canada Posts: 136	A discussion about "Jesus walking on water" shouldn't be followed by another one about "Searching for Jesus". (juantoo3, I love your last one ) Kal