“Love is the distance between reality and pain.”
– Robyn Hitchcock

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“Put every great teacher together in a room, and they’d agree about everything, put their disciples in there and they’d argue about everything.

Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it.

Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there.

Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system.

Don’t fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible.

The all illuminating light shines and is beyond the movement of the opposites.

Taoist philosophy … is essentially monistic. … Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole.

What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE.

We have finally come back to the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus, who said everything is flow, flux, process. There are no “things.”

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed.

We all have time to spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever

Emptiness the starting point.

The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible.

Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man’s mind can conceive and believe.

The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is.

Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.

Flow in the living moment. — We are always in a process of becoming and NOTHING is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you’ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. OPEN yourelf and flow, my friend. Flow in the TOTAL OPENESS OF THE LIVING MOMENT. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow — you are not understanding yourself.”
– Bruce Lee

“If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, ‘Thank You’, that would suffice.

The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God’s eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love.”
– Meister Eckhart

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Meister_Eckhart

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wikiquote:Quote_of_the_day/November#27