Care about other people’s approval and you will be their prisoner.–Tao Te Ching, S. Mitchell tr.
Archive for September 2015
Just_Saying_Sun09/20/2015
September 20, 2015Just_Saying_Sat09/19/2015
September 19, 2015When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.–Anais Nin
Just_Saying_Fri09/18/2015
September 18, 2015A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.–Mark Twain
Just_Saying_Thu09/17/2015
September 17, 2015In the movie High Plains Drifter Eastwood says, “It’s what people know about themselves inside that makes ’em afraid.” I think it’s what people know about themselves but refuse to admit that makes people afraid.–me
Just_Saying_Tue09/15/2015
September 15, 2015Actually, being what you are is the simplest. What is difficult is to stop being what you are not.–Mooji
Just_Saying_Mon09/14/2015
September 14, 2015If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?–Rumi
Just_Saying_Sun09/13/2015
September 13, 2015If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.–George Bernard Shaw
Just_Saying_Sat09/12/2015
September 12, 2015Just remember, we’re all in this alone.–Lily Tomlin
Just_Saying_Fri09/11/2015
September 11, 2015When we are angry, when we are excited, when we are depressed, when we are elated, we are completely submerged in and identified with those thoughts and feelings. This is why we suffer. –Tenzin Palmo
Just_Saying_Thu09/10/2015
September 10, 2015It is said that a monk once asked him, To be holy – what is it like? Joshu replied, To dump a mountain of shit on a clean plain.