Could be Buddhist… but isn’t (post your quotes)

He who never forgives is destined to live bitter memories in his own hell.

orig: El que nunca perdona tiene destino cierto de vivir amargos recuerdos en su propio infierno.

– Willie Colón

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if you cannot explain simply to somebody any subject, then you do not understand that subject.

  • albert einstein
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hastī apnī habāb kī sī hai

ye numā’ish sarāb kī sī hai

My existence is like a bubble,
This display is like a mirage.

Mir Muhammad Taqi (1723–1810)

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The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.

A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.

You can’t say A is made of B
or vice versa.
All mass is interaction.

Tell your son to stop trying to fill your head with science — for to fill your heart with love is enough!

One of the miseries of life is that everybody names things a little bit wrong, and so it makes a little bit harder to understand things than it would have been if they had been named differently.

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right—at least if you have any experience—because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in. …The inexperienced […] and people like that, make guesses that are simple, but you can immediately see that they are wrong, so that does not count. Others, the inexperienced students, make guesses that are very complicated, and it sort of looks as if it is all right, but I know it is not true because the truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring.

– Richard Feynman

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He will easily be content and at peace, whose conscience is pure…

How quickly passes away the glory of this world…

If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?..

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

Thomas Kempis

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“Whose self, subdued, is satisfied
by knowledge and insight, aloof,
and sees clods, stones and gold nuggets
as one, is said to be a yogi.”

Bhagavad Gita, 6.8

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carnel affections must die, that spiritual affections may live. and all who will be true followers of christ must lead a celibate life.
mother ann

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“And if you don’t know where you’re going
Any road will take you there”
George Harrison

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”
“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.”
John Lennon

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If the mountains fell in the sea
Let it be, it ain’t me

https://genius.com/The-jimi-hendrix-experience-if-6-was-9-lyrics

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Love this one! Hendrix was a genius :slight_smile:

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It is Vajrayana/Mahayana Buddhist.

Death Is Nothing At All

By Henry Scott-Holland

Death is nothing at all.
It does not count.
I have only slipped away into the next room.
Nothing has happened.

Everything remains exactly as it was.
I am I, and you are you,
and the old life that we lived so fondly together is untouched, unchanged.
Whatever we were to each other, that we are still.

Call me by the old familiar name.
Speak of me in the easy way which you always used.
Put no difference into your tone.
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow.

Laugh as we always laughed at the little jokes that we enjoyed together.
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me.
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without an effort, without the ghost of a shadow upon it.

Life means all that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is absolute and unbroken continuity.
What is this death but a negligible accident?

Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight?
I am but waiting for you, for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just round the corner.

All is well.
Nothing is hurt; nothing is lost.
One brief moment and all will be as it was before.
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!

-Henry Scott Holland (1847–1918) was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. He was also a canon of Christ Church, Oxford.

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“I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.”

(Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, III. 5)

A short discussion of the line by Carlos Yebra Lopez:

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…… Have you ever had a dream that was so real……what if you never awake from that dream……how would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?

……you’re living in a dream world….wake up!

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“Each of the sense spheres, being not real, arises [by conditions]; having arisen it ceases completely [by conditions]. It is a result of previous action, but there is no doer [anatta ‘not-self’].”

Cf. SA 335.
Pages 95-6 from The Fundamental Teachings of Early Buddhism Choong Mun-keat 2000.pdf (155.3 KB)

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Where does this come from?

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https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/literature/ptahhotep.html

from a thousand years and more before the Buddha :slight_smile:

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Good tea is eloquent enough, it turns out, to change a person’s mind. ~ Banana Yoshimoto

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rogerwaters1

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