Words that bring you peace
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1Christie
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still
Even among these rocks,
Our peace in His will
From the poem "Ash Wednesday" by T.S. Eliot
Teach us to sit still
Even among these rocks,
Our peace in His will
From the poem "Ash Wednesday" by T.S. Eliot
2JGL53
"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
- Macbeth's soliloquy in act 5, scene 5 of Shakespeare's Macbeth
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
- Macbeth's soliloquy in act 5, scene 5 of Shakespeare's Macbeth
3chg1
A wise old owl
lived in an oak,
the more he saw
the less he spoke,
the less he spoke
the more he heard,
why can't we be
like that wise old bird?
-Author not remembered
lived in an oak,
the more he saw
the less he spoke,
the less he spoke
the more he heard,
why can't we be
like that wise old bird?
-Author not remembered
4JGL53
"...The owl is not really a wise bird at all. The owl actually has a small brain in comparison to it's size. Other birds such as crows, ravens and geese are much smarter than owls..."
http://www.bukisa.com/articles/337977_the-wise-old-owl-myths-and-legends-molly-t...
5MyopicBookworm
(What a strange person you are, to find peace in such a literal-minded missing of the point!)
The owl in the verse is at least wise enough to speak little:
"Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it."
(By the way, wisdom is not even correlated with intelligence, never mind brain size.)
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
(Ajhan Chah)
The owl in the verse is at least wise enough to speak little:
"Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it."
(By the way, wisdom is not even correlated with intelligence, never mind brain size.)
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Do not try to become anything. Do not make yourself into anything. Do not be a meditator. Do not become enlightened. When you sit, let it be. When you walk, let it be. Grasp at nothing. Resist nothing.
(Ajhan Chah)
6JGL53
Owls are silent because they are dull-witted.
I prefer accuracy in metaphors, especially if I am going to be one, or not, othewise what is the point?
I prefer accuracy in metaphors, especially if I am going to be one, or not, othewise what is the point?
7MyopicBookworm
OK, I'll sue you as soon as I find a metaphorical lawyer.
Life's but a walking shadow
A shadow of what?
Life's but a walking shadow
A shadow of what?
8chg1
It is often difficult (if not impossible) to see the forest but for the trees.
5>
BTW- not a strange person...bird perhaps??
;-)
9JGL53
"Knowing that I am of the same nature as all other natural things, I know that there is really no separate self, no separate personality, no absolute death and no absolute life."
- T'ien T'ung-Hsu
- T'ien T'ung-Hsu
10JGL53
'If a man conquer in battle a thousand times ten thousand men and if another conquers himself he is the greatest of conquerors... not even a god …. could change into defeat the victory of a man who has vanquished himself, and always lives under restraint.'
- Dhammapada.
- Dhammapada.
11chg1
>10 JGL53:
MUCH easier said than done...How many people are actually trying- or how many even are aware of the implications, assuming they (and I) know even what it means??
MUCH easier said than done...How many people are actually trying- or how many even are aware of the implications, assuming they (and I) know even what it means??
12chg1
I know you heard what you think that I said but I am not sure that what you understand is what I meant.
13JGL53
God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
- Joseph Campbell
- Joseph Campbell
14rolandperkins
"Neither the Buddha nor the Christ belongs exclusively to the communities that were founded in their names. They belong to all people of good will, all who are attentive to the secret, which lives in the depths of their breath and their consciousness." Jean-Yves Leloup*
*In a recently-acquired book Compassion and Meditation: the Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity
*In a recently-acquired book Compassion and Meditation: the Spiritual Dynamic between Buddhism and Christianity
15Rhinoceras
>14 rolandperkins:
Thanks Roland, I will check that book out (from Amazon). Do you read Raimon Panikkar? In my estimation the most brilliant mind of the century on intra-religious dialogue.
Rhino
Thanks Roland, I will check that book out (from Amazon). Do you read Raimon Panikkar? In my estimation the most brilliant mind of the century on intra-religious dialogue.
Rhino
16Rhinoceras
"Every day
I see or I hear
something
that more or less
kills me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle
in the haystack
of light.
It is what I was born for--
to look, to listen,
to lose myself
inside this soft world--
to instruct myself
over and over
in joy,
and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
about the exceptional,
the fearful, the dreadful,
the very extravagant--
but of the ordinary,
the common, the very drab,
the daily presentations.
Oh, good scholar,
I say to myself,
how can you help
but grow wise
with such teachings
as these--
the untrimmable light
of the world,
the ocean's shine,
the prayers that are made
out of grass?"
"Mindful" by Mary oliver
I see or I hear
something
that more or less
kills me
with delight,
that leaves me
like a needle
in the haystack
of light.
It is what I was born for--
to look, to listen,
to lose myself
inside this soft world--
to instruct myself
over and over
in joy,
and acclamation.
Nor am I talking
about the exceptional,
the fearful, the dreadful,
the very extravagant--
but of the ordinary,
the common, the very drab,
the daily presentations.
Oh, good scholar,
I say to myself,
how can you help
but grow wise
with such teachings
as these--
the untrimmable light
of the world,
the ocean's shine,
the prayers that are made
out of grass?"
"Mindful" by Mary oliver
17JGL53
As a human being, Bin Laden may have deserved compassion and even forgiveness, the Dalai Lama said in answer to a question about the assassination of the Al Qaeda leader. But, he said, "Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. ... If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lewis-richmond/dalai-lama-osama_b_871378.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lewis-richmond/dalai-lama-osama_b_871378.html
18PeterKein
The opposite of a true statement is a false statement, but the opposite of a profound truth can be another profound truth.
-Niels Bohr
-Niels Bohr
20JGL53
….we are one with that unknown Ultimate, of which matter and human mind are but ever-changing manifestations…each of us is many, yet…all of us are still one with each other and with the cosmos…we must know all past humanity not only in ourselves, but likewise in the preciousness and beauty of every fellow life…we can best love ourselves in others…we shall best serve ourselves in others…forms are but veils and phantoms…to the formless Infinite alone really belong all human emotions, whether of the living or the dead.
From “Kokoro” by Lafcadio Hearn
From “Kokoro” by Lafcadio Hearn
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