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  • #178279

    Plato is boring.

    Friedrich Nietzsche

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    #178280

    A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.

    Mohandas Gandhi

    #178281

    First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

    Epictetus

    #178282

    It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub, the task.

    Virgil

    #178283

    When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

    Marquis de LaGrange

    #178284

    When we ask for directions, we often need a compass.

    Marquis de L’Observer

    #178285

    Through the process of mindfulness, we slowly become aware of what we really are down below the ego image. We wake up to what life really is. It is not just a parade of ups and downs, lollipops and smacks on the wrist. That is an illusion. Life has a much deeper texture than that if we bother to look, and if we look in the right way.

    Bhante Gunaratana

    #178286

    Remember the early worm.
    (Someone I wish I’d known)

    #178287

    Life is a great suprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
    Vladimir Nabokov

    #178288

    If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

    Michel Foucault

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