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Overflowing Cup of Tea:
The Zen Master poured his visitor's teacup full, and then kept pouring.
The visitor watched until he could no longer restrain himself.
"It is overfull. No more will go in!"
"Like this cup," the Zen Master said,
"you are full of your own opinions and assumptions.
How can you learn truth until you first empty your cup?"
- Traditional Zen Koan
Time to Die:
A Zen teacher had a rare and priceless teacup.
One day, his precocious student accidentally broke the cup.
Hearing the footsteps of his teacher,
the student held the pieces of the cup behind his back.
When the master appeared, he asked: "Why do people have to die?"
"This is natural," explained the teacher.
"Everything has to die and has just so long to live."
The student showed the shattered cup, saying,
"It was time for your cup to die."
- Traditional Zen Koan
When you are alone you are not alone,
you are simply lonely -
and there is a tremendous difference
between loneliness and aloneness.
When you are lonely you are thinking of the other,
you are missing the other.
Loneliness is a negative state.
You are feeling that it would have been
better if the other were there -
your friend, your wife, your mother,
your beloved, your husband.
It would have been good if the other
were there, but the other is not.
Loneliness is absence of the other.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself.
Aloneness is very positive.
It is a presence, overflowing presence.
You are so full of presence
that you can fill the whole universe
with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
- Osho
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
Remember that not getting what you want
is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can give you better advice than yourself.
- Cicero
Before you criticize a man,
walk a mile in his shoes.
- Anonymous
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz
What you want is irrelevant,
what you have chosen is at hand.
- Spock character in Star Trek VI movie
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
When you keep getting the wrong answers,
try asking better questions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.
- Soren Kierkegaard
If you understand, things are just as they are;
if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
- Zen Proverb
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
The world will persist in exhibiting before you
what you persist in affirming the world is.
- Emma Curtis Hopkins
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Yesterday is a canceled check;
tomorrow is a
promissory note;
today is the only cash you have;
so spend it wisely.
- Kay Lyons
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
If you don't know where you're going,
any road will take you there.
- Lewis Carroll
(Alice in Wonderland)
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Happiness is a choice.
You grieve, you stomp your feet,
you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
- Lucy Lawless
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
You grow up the day you have
your first real laugh - at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue;
Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.
- Lao Tzu
You remember lesson about balance?
Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life.
Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Understand?
- Miyagi: character in the movie Karate Kid
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
What you are comes to you.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
By letting it go it all gets done.
The world is won by those who let it go.
But when you try and try.
The world is beyond the winning.
- Lao Tzu
The only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason.
- Terry Goodkind
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
- Native American Proverb
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
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