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[Most of these were taken from my bloglines clippings fold. How's that for 2.0?]

quotations i like

• Reality is all-encompassing: the absolute nature is one. Although we may feel separate from the original uncreated reality - whether we call it 'God,' 'peak experience,' or 'enlightened mind' - through awareness we can contact this essential part of ourselves. - Tarthang Tulku

• A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

• No matter what one does, whether one's deeds serve virtue or vice, nothing lacks importance. All actions bear a kind of fruit. - Buddha

• But if you do not find an intelligent companion, a wise and well-behaved person going the same way as yourself, then go on your way alone, like a king abandoning a conquered kingdom, or like a great elephant in the deep forest. - Buddha

• A myriad bubbles were floating on the surface of a stream. 'What are you?' I cried to them as they drifted by. 'I am a bubble, of course' nearly a myriad bubbles answered, and there was surprise and indignation in their voices as they passed. But, here and there, a lonely bubble answered, 'We are this stream', and there was neither surprise nor indignation in their voices, but just a quiet certitude. - Ask the Awakened by Wei Wu Wei

• You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. - Buddha

• Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away. -Aitken Roshi

• When asked the question, what is consciousness? we become conscious of consciousness. And most of us take this consciousness of consciousness to be what consciousness is. This is not true. - Julian Jaynes

• There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth -- not going all the way, and not starting. - Buddha

• Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own unguarded thoughts. Develop the mind of equilibrium. You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind: follow the calmness, the absence of pride. - Sutta Nipata

• Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. -The Talmud

• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. -Peter Ustinov

• We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. -Joseph Campbell

• Your love is a strong force. It lightens that which presumes to weigh you down. -unknown