philosophical

What are you thinking?""Just how different everything down there is now, you know, now that I can see.""Everything down there is exactly the same," he said. "You're the one that's different.

The games we play are lessons we learn. The assumptions we make, things we ignore, and things we change make us what we become.

If even a dog's tooth is truly worshipped it glows with light. The venerated object is endowed with power, that is the simple sense of the ontological proof. And if there is art enough a lie can enlighten us as well as the truth. What is the truth anyway, that truth? As we know ourselves we are fake objects, fakes, bundles of illusions. Can you determine exactly what you felt or thought or did?

We can't escape history, anymore than we can recapture it." Master Kai

Deep in my heart politeness impresses me more than competence.

There's only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean.

No man is an island, no man stands alone

The moon shines in my body, but my blind eyes cannot see it:The moon is within me, and so is the sun.The unstruck drum of Eternity is sounded within me; but my deaf ears cannot hear it.So long as man clamors for the I and the Mine, his works are as naught:When all love of the I and the Mine is dead, then the work of the Lord is done.For work has no other aim than the getting of knowledge:When that comes, then work is put away.The flower blooms for the fruit: when the fruit comes, the flower withers.The musk is in the deer, but is seeks it not within itself: it wanders in quest of grass.

metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love

Life is like a one rung ladder, some days you can be on the top and bottom of the world at the same time

In Unity we can be enslaved, and in Unity we can also come together as individuals." Old Woman

The best way to move forward is to stop

I have also figured out that for many people death is a difficult subject, not at all as simple as it is for me.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exlcude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

--perhaps a soul is what you have spent your life making, not a piece of metaphysical equipment shipped ready-made from the factory, another myth like original sin, which you were outfitted with at birth and could somehow lose, like men high and low sometimes lost their humanity--

The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.

Would you ask a man who bags groceries if he fears death not because it is death but because there are still some interesting groceries he would like to bag?

And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth__ centre.