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Everyone wants to know the "truth","feel bliss", and feel connected with something. We're hunters and seekers looking for intense spiritually. Thinking it's complicated and hard to find. Really it's inside each one of us in different ways. Different experiences pull it out of us one by one. It's a never ending growth. If we choose to believe it is

Don't look at your mountain Climb it

Cecil Fieldhouse

Just saw this one today, I like it.

Faith is beyond the mind just as much as cosmic consciousness.

Honza.

Greetings,

Today was yesterday's tomorrow - always live in the now moment.

If I don't mind it don't matter.

From a guy who drove a yellow 280zx

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Originally Posted by aimtobe

Please post your favorite proverbs or words of wisdom - ancient and modern.

If they are another person's words, please cite/reference appropriately. If you don't know the author, claim unknown or anonymous. And of course, feel free to also post your own insights.

Please remember to keep it short - no more than a few sentences. :wink:

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY; YOU NEVER KNOW WHO YOU'RE TALKING TO.

By my deceased mother-in-law.

She also used to say: PULL YOUR OWN LITTLE RED WAGON.

In other words, mind your own business and take care of your own life.

simple choices ... happiness in expansion vs sorrow in contraction. our life, our choice.

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“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”
― A.A. Milne

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him.
Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.”
― A. A. Milne