Quotes

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• Genuine compassion is unbiased. - His Holiness the Dalai Lama
• Everything that begins also ends. Make peace with that and all will be well. - the Buddha
• How much of your life do you spend looking forward to being somewhere else? - Matthew Flickstein, "Journey to the Center"
• All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws. - John Coltrane
• I don't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones. - John Cage
• Be here now.
• The only constant is change. - Heraclitus
• Happiness = Satisfaction / Desires
• Everything is a dream within a dream. ... We make our own meanings.
• Better than a thousand useless words is one word that gives peace. - Buddha
• Gifts are great; meditations and religious experiences pacify the mind; comprehension of the great truth leads to nirvana; but greater than all is loving kindness. - Buddha
• He who says does not know; he who knows does not say. (Taoist)
• Athletes practice their athletics; musicians practice their music; artists practice their art. The peaceful warrior practices everything. - Dan Millman, No Ordinary Moments
• No more worrying about not being perfect.
• The meanings of the three sounds of the chant Om:
  A - ah - waking state, subj. consciousness of the outer world.
  U - ooh - dreaming state, consciousness of inner thoughts, dreams & memories.
  M - mm - drealmess state of deep sleep, experience of ultimate unity.
• Idea: Be what you strive for. Be it now, don't wait until you've completed the steps, for if you wait to be what you strive for, you may not ever be. - concept as described to my wife by Dr. Jerry Galloway
• Do, or do not. There is no try. - Yoda
  Commentary: There are many circumstances in which saying that you'll "try" to do something only means that you are giving yourself a ready-made excuse for when you fail to do something, even if that failure is almost entirely because you didn't try.
• Art is a lie that helps us see the truth. - Dan Millman
• All that we are is the result of what we have thought; it is founded on our thoughts; it is made up of our thoughts. - Buddha
• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. - Leonardo da Vinvi