Daily Wisdom Saying - Page 7

Pathless · 02-18-2004, 01:49 PM

"Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is like when you trust yourself to the water. You don't grab hold of the water when you swim, because if you do you will become stiff and tight in the water, and sink. You have to relax, and the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging, and holding on. In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."

--Alan Watts

JJM · 02-18-2004, 11:39 PM

EMotion is Boring. Let see some sh*t Blown up
-Micheal Ian Black

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I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates

JJM · 02-18-2004, 11:49 PM

Employ Your time in improving yourself by other mens writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for
-Socrates

__________________________________________________ ________
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates

Susma Rio Sep · 02-19-2004, 12:15 AM

"Throwing pearls before pigs"
says more of the thrower than the pigs.

-- Cynicus Anonymus

Susma Rio Sep

Zenda71 · 02-19-2004, 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by juantoo3

"If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, riddle 'em with bullets."

The sign in my office says "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullsh*t."

"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is." - Albert Camus

Susma Rio Sep · 02-19-2004, 04:28 PM

Writing volumes and volumes,
on and on, years in and years out,
to defend the indefensible.

-- Cynicus Anonymus

Susma Rio Sep

juantoo3 · 02-20-2004, 01:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zenda71

The sign in my office says "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullsh*t."

Kindest Regards, Zenda71!

Yes, I am familiar with that version too, and likely would have gotten around to it (a round tuit) if you hadn't beaten me to the draw. I find the other version a bit more ironic.

juantoo3 · 02-20-2004, 01:13 AM

"If more is not necessarily better, then average is not necessarily normal"

juantoo3 · 02-20-2004, 01:17 AM

We the unwiling, led by the unqualified, have been doing the unbelievable for so long with so little, we now attempt the impossible with nothing.

juantoo3 · 02-20-2004, 01:19 AM

"If you can't be right, be wrong at the top of your voice!"

Susma Rio Sep · 02-20-2004, 02:20 AM

Tibetan monks invented the prayer wheels;
that's high tech for you in a backward society.

-- Cynicus Anonymus

Susma Rio Sep

JJM · 02-20-2004, 04:51 AM

Whenever I feel bad I try to remind myself of the siamese twin who's brother is gay and has a boyfreind coming over and they share the same *ssh*le.
-Buddy Hacket

__________________________________________________ ________________
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates

JJM · 02-20-2004, 04:53 AM

Look at other people and ask yourselfif you are really seeing them or just your thoughts about them.
-Jon Kabbit-Zinn

__________________________________________________ _________
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.
Socrates

StrandgecK · 02-20-2004, 06:15 AM

We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. - MLK Jr.

StrandgecK · 02-20-2004, 06:50 AM

If being sane is thinking there's something wrong with being different, I'd rather be completely f*cking mental.

02-19-2004, 12:15 AM	#94 (permalink)
Susma Rio Sep Executive Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 817	Who's piggish now? "Throwing pearls before pigs" says more of the thrower than the pigs. -- Cynicus Anonymus Susma Rio Sep

02-19-2004, 04:28 PM	#96 (permalink)
Susma Rio Sep Executive Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 817	Verbose mode Writing volumes and volumes, on and on, years in and years out, to defend the indefensible. -- Cynicus Anonymus Susma Rio Sep

02-20-2004, 02:20 AM	#101 (permalink)
Susma Rio Sep Executive Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 817	High tech monks Tibetan monks invented the prayer wheels; that's high tech for you in a backward society. -- Cynicus Anonymus Susma Rio Sep

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