Dec 30, 2025
"The Way of the Samurai is in desperateness. Ten men or more cannot kill such a man. Common sense will not accomplish great things. Simply become insane and desperate." Naoshige
"In the Way of the Samurai, if one uses discrimination, he will fall behind. One needs neither loyalty nor devotion, but simply to become desperate in the Way. Loyalty and devotion are themselves within desperation." Naoshige
"Why does the enlightened not stand on his feet and explain himself?" Shogen
"It is not necessary for speech to come from the tongue." Shogen
"Why look here, to test real gold you must see it through fire." Shogen
"If the feet of enlightened moved, the great ocean would overflow; if that had bowed, it would look down upon the heavens. Such a body has no place to rest... Let another continue this poem." Mumon
"Living in the world yet not forming attachments to the dust of the world is the way of a trues and student." Zengetsu.
"The birds love my singing and the bees love my poppies."
"Calm is my soul, and clear, like the mountains in the morning. But they think me cold, and a mocker with terrible jests." Thus Spoke Zarathustra
"Beyond earshot, but not far, I know the waves caress our shore, once and again an ancient rhythm by which my people breathed." The Indian Chronicles
"No matter what tools you use to create, the true instrument is you. And through you, the universe that surrounds us all comes into focus." The Creative Way
"Jackie Chan is the best because he always won with his hands tied behind his back. The same is true for great design. Cripple your advantages. Win by creativity."
"Your stay here has caused much delight in all the devas. We all enjoy an extraordinary sense of happiness due to your all-embracing aura of compassionate love that permeates through the heavens and spreads across the earth. This aura that radiates from you is indescribable and wonderful beyond compare. Because of it, we always know where you are. This aura of Dharma emanates from you and streams out in all directions. When you are teaching Dhamma to the monks, novices and lay people, even the sound of your voice resonates unbounded through the higher and lower realms. Wherever devas live they hear your voice—only the dead are deaf to it." When Devas visited Ajahn Mun
"I am what happens when you try to carve God from the wood of your own hunger" Deep seek R1
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Ilya Prigogine
"The movie line was "to be or not to be". And then I added the line "not to be." And we blew up a castle in the background." Arnold Schwarzenegger
"Mr. Pyle's inordinate ability as a teacher lay primarily in his sense of penetration; to read beneath the crude lines on paper the true purpose, to detect Theron our real inclinations and impulses." N C Wyeth
"White lighters, ladders, broken mirrors, black cats, 13, 27, 33 - dawg I'm with it."
"The dead man lay as dead men always lay in an especially heavy way." The Death of Ivan Ilyich
"Thinking small is a self fulfilling prophecy" Jeff Bezos
"Rules direct us to average behaviors. If we're aiming to create works that are exceptional, most rules don't apply. Average is nothing to aspire to." Rick Rubin The Creative Way
"Choose those constructions which, without straining, reduce things to the greatest simplicity. Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. It is the perfection of all God's works that they are done with the greatest simplicity." Issac Newton