"A lie is sweet in the beginning and bitter in the end, and truth is bitter in the beginning, and sweet in the end."
—Osho
The words from Osho can be found in his writing or in this new track by DJ KOZE
Quotes for the turning of the year – 2016
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
— Zora Neale Hurston
“We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.”
— Henry Miller
“Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.”
— Voltaire
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
— Simone Weil
“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“And the idea of ourselves is our escape from the fact of what we really are.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“The universe is wider than our views of it.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Student says, “I am very discouraged. What should I do?” Master says, “Encourage others.”
— Zen Proverb
“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”
— Alan W. Watts
“There is really nothing more to say except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.”
— Toni Morrison
“Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.”
— Iris Murdoch
“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.”
— Virginia Woolf
“Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar.”
— Antonio Machado
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
— W.B. Yeats
“The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.”
— Frank Lloyd Wright
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
— James Joyce
“Through pain I've learned to comfort suffering men.”
— Virgil
“Let yourself be gutted. Let it open you. Start here.”
— Cheryl Strayed
“Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.”
— Adrienne Rich
QOTD - Zen Aphorism
Student says "I am very discouraged. What should I do?"
Master says "encourage others."
–Zen aphorism
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QOTD - Lawrence Durell
“Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.”
– Lawrence Durrell
QOTD - Tom Stoppard
I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.
― Tom Stoppard, Rock 'n' Roll
QOTD - Gertrude Stein
“If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.”
– Gertrude Stein
QOTD - Virginia Woolf
“The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”
– Virginia Woolf
QOTD - Li Po
“We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains.”
― Li Po
QOTD - Annie Dillard
QOTD - Nabokov
“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.”
― Vladimir Nabokov
QOTD - Andy Warhol
“The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.”
– Andy Warhol
QOTD - VIRGINIA WOOLF
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
– Virginia Woolf
QOTD - Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫)
“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
– Yukio Mishima
QOTD - Walt Whitman
“I and this mystery, here we stand.”
– Walt Whitman