Category: Quotes

29
Nov
2011

Are You Born Yet?

‘It’s Kind of a Funny Story’, simply put, is an ode to life. An ode to living itself: He who…

29
Nov
2011

Acts Over Feels

From Ghostoplis by Doug TenNapel, Love is in the acts, not in the feels. – Uncle Werewolf Better still, love…

14
Nov
2011

Actions Speak Louder

Talking at length about perfecting compassion is inadequate if one does not even think of sparing animals from meals as…

14
Nov
2011

The (Un)Breakable Heart

If your heart has not broken, your love is not true yet, because you have yet to love deeply. If…

08
Nov
2011

The Terrorless Bang

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. – Alfred Hitchcock S: Dukkha (suffering) is…

07
Nov
2011

Wise Or Foolish?

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

07
Nov
2011

Never Underestimate Anyone

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.’ –…

07
Nov
2011

Some Discomfort

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

07
Nov
2011

Don’t Overeat

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

31
Oct
2011

The Importance of Being Earnest

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…

27
Oct
2011

Something Drastically Wrong

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

18
Oct
2011

Butterfly Bee

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

27
Sep
2011

To Love is to Suffer?

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

12
Sep
2011

Being Real, Being Good

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

08
Sep
2011

Is Jealousy Natural?

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

07
Sep
2011

From Web To World

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…

31
Aug
2011

How To Live Before You Die

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

11
Aug
2011

A ‘Better’ Paradox

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

19
Jul
2011

Good Or Not?

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

06
Jul
2011

Beginning Of Bodhicitta

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