Category: Quotes

The wise are happy in discovering hard truths about themselves, as they realise they can be wiser. The foolish are…

我不敢轻于汝等， 汝等皆当作佛。 – 常不轻菩萨 (法华经) ‘I do not dare to belittle you all, for you all will become Buddhas.’ –…

Some discomfort is good. That from recognising Dukkha drives us to Nirvana. Some discomfort is not good. That from denying…

This might come across as a little crude, but it is nevertheless true… If you often defecate too much, you…

心不老实即行不老实。 老实至心即老实修行。 When the mind is not earnest [forthright; honest; frank; straightforward], the practice [action] is not earnest. When the…

An unnerving passage by Steven Grant, in Warren Ellis’ ‘Scars’. ‘If they weren’t there and I saw them, there’s something drastically…

Struck me that Muhammad Ali’s boxing philosophy of ‘Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee’ seems somewhat aligned to…

Woody Allen said this – To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one…

Carl Jung is supposed to have said, ‘Life is not about being good. It is about being real.’ My take…

From Chester Brown’s ‘Paying for It’: Jealousy is natural, but that doesn’t mean that not feeling jealous is not natural….

From http://boingboing.net/2011/08/31/rob-interviewed-in-the-economist.html : Mr Anil Dash called on sites with communities and forums actively to police themselves, rather than allow…

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it…

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another…

Edmund Burke said, ‘All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.’ Methinks,…

I am only one, but still I am one [and not ‘no one’]. I cannot do everything, but still I…

Since life has no (fixed) meaning, what the meaning of life is, is to give life a (meaningful) meaning. Since life…

Something funny because it was said seriously in the ‘Green Lantern’ movie: Bob: Watch your back. Hal: That’s impossible, Bob….

An interesting saying shared by a friend: 道心之中有衣食，衣食之中无道心. There is (spiritual) clothing and food (shelter and sustenance) within the heart…

They throw the ball, I hit it. They hit the ball, I catch it. – Willie Mays Baseball is nothing…

自不在 而自在. [As one realises] there is no self, there is ease with one’self’. – Stonepeace Total realisation of non-self,…