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My Favorite Quotes |
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* "People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Forgive them, anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind, anyway. If you are successful, you will win false friends and some true enemies. Succeed, anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you. Be honest and frank, anyway. What you spend years building, someone may destroy overnight. Build, anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous. Be happy, anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow. Do good, anyway. Give the world the best you have. It may just never be enough. Give the world the best you have, anyway. You see..." said Mother Teresa. "In the final analysis, it's all between you and God. It was never between you and them, anyway." (Mother Teresa) |
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* Physics is like sex. Sure it may give some pratical results. But that is not why we do it. (Richard Feyman) |
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* After this stage of (life) experiences, which we have all had, the person has gone pass the personal life into the life of transpersonal experiences. One comes to, suddenly, a stage of understanding it all. You cant talk about it. It is just the rapture of seeing and knowing whats all about. And that its good. And that its great, for all the pains and all that. Neverthless, it is as it is. It is a marvel! The pains and the pleasures are not the end you live for, but just the rapture of this beholding. ......Finally, there is one stage further, beyond this one of symbolic rapture, is that of a kind of metaphysical sense, that you have struck the ground. You have found the root being. (Joseph Campbell) |
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* Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. (a Zen quotation) |
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* Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth." (Joseph Campbell)
"Dreams are self-illuminous. They shines of themselves, as gods do. Myths are public dreams. Dreams are private myths. The passages from dreams to visions, to the Gods--they are you. All the gods, all the hells, all the heavens, are within you. The God is in you. It's not something that happened somewhere else a long time ago." (Joseph Campbell) |
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* The concept of time shuts off eternity.
(Joseph Campbell)
* He who think he knows, doesn't know. He who think he doesn't know, knows. |
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* If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams, and endeavor to live a life which you have imagined, you will meet with a success unexpectedly in common hours (Henry D. Thoreau) |
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* The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do. (Galileo)
* Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. (Joseph Campbell)
* He who drinks from my mouth will become as I am, and I shall be Him. (Thomas Gospel) |
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* Those who would achieve little must sacrifice little. Those who would achieve much must sacrifice much. Those who would achieve highly must sacrifice greatly. (James Allen) |
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* Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. (Einstein) |
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* The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change. (Joseph Campbell)
* A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. (Joseph Campbell)
* What am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the blub is a vehicle? (Re: physical body vs. consciousness) |
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* ...A Japanese Samurai warrior was on a duty to avenge the murderer of his overlord. After some time the warrior found and cornered the man who had murdered his overlord. When he was about to deal with him, the terrified man suddenly spat in the warrior's face. The Sumurai warrior sheathed his sword and walked away. The reason-- Because he was angry. If he had killed the man, it would have been for wrong reasons. (adapted from Joseph Campbell) |
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* I once was lost. But now I am found. ...That was grace that taught my heart. ... That is grace that will lead me home. (adapted from John Newton) |
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* I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details. (Einstein) |
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* All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. (Blaise Pascal) |
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*Sell cleverness. Purchase Bewilderment. (Rumi) |
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* Lord, make me an instrument of Thy Peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy;
O, Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
(Prayer of St. Francis) |
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* When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship. (Joseph Campbell)
* When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity. (Joseph Campbell) |
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* Where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a God. Where we had though to slay another, we shall slay ourselves. Where we had thought to travel outwards, we shall come to the center of our existence. Where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world. (Joseph Campbell) |
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* My studies in Speculative Philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese (Edmund Burke) |
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* When you are on a journey, and the end keeps getting further and further away, then you realize that the real end is the journey. (Karlfried Graf Durckheim) |
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Passing on Prayer
When the sunset of life arrives, and its twilight shadows fade away; while dreams of the next begin to appear more vividly; may the inner-light essence of the Buddha, and all the radiant awakened ones, continuously guide us onwards and upwards, on the path of spiritual enlightment. (by Lama Surya Das) |
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* "For God, all things are good, right, and just. But for men, some things are right. Others are not." (Heraclitus) "You are in a field of time. Good and evil are simply temoral apparitions." (Joseph Campbell) |
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* The real important function of the church is to present the symbol, to perform the rite, to let you behold this divine message in such a way that you are capable of experiencing it. What the relationship of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost to each other might be, in technical terms, is not half important as you, the celebrant, feeling the Virgin Birth within you, the birth of the mystic, mythic being that is your own spiritual life. (Joseph Campbell, Pathways to Bliss, P. 43) |
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" ......the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them was seeking the same experience and knew that the experience was incommunicable. The communication is only an effort to bring the hearer to the edge of the abyss; it is a signpost, not the thing itself. But the secular clergy reads the communication and gets stuck with the letter, and that's where you have the conflict." (Joseph Campbell) |
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" Heinrich Zimmerhe had a little saying : The best things cant be told -- because they are transcendent, inexpressible truths. The second best are misunderstood : myths, which are metaphoric attempts to point to the way toward the first. And the third best have to do with history, science, biography, and so on. The only kind of talking that can be understood is this last kind." (Joseph Campbell) |
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* God is a thought. God is a name. God is an idea. But its reference is to something that transcends all thinking. The ultimate mystery of being is beyond all categories of thought. (Joseph Campbell) |
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*Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. (Henry David Thoreau) |
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*Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do then by ones you did do. So thrwo off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. (Mark Twain) |
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