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Homeless Anents
I would love to get your ideas on quotes for the anents section of the comic book pages. Anything in the subject areas of enlightenment, school and sex would be helpful. Please write to host@bodhati.com if you would like to contribute something.
The following are quotes that haven't quite fit on any of the planned pages yet.
- America, how can I write my holy litany with you in your silly mood? - Allen Ginsberg
- Wu Li – “Before enlightenment, chop wood and carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood and carry water”
- Margaret Mead – Always remember that you are absolutely unique, just like everyone else.
- Few people have the imagination for reality. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- I must quit the ranch house of my soul. - Brother Void (The Suburb Within)
- Necessity is also the mother of deception.
- Let our scars fall in love. - Galway Kinnell
- I will find that special person that is wrong for me in just the right way. - Brother Void (Loving the Wrong Person)
- “We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.” - Thich Nhat Hanh
- In Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass," Alice tells the White Queen that she cannot believe in impossible things. But the Queen says Alice simply hasn't had enough practice. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
- Koheleth believes that you die and that's it—"even a live dog is better than a dead lion … the dead know nothing … their loves, their hates, their jealousies have long since perished." Koheleth's answer for this dilemma is: Seize the day. "Whatever it is in your power to do, do with all your might." "Enjoy happiness with a woman you love." This is all we get, so make the most of it. – Ecclesiastes
- Reporter: “What do you think of Western Culture?”
Ghandi: “I think it would be a very good idea.”
- If you understood everything I said, you’d be me. – Miles Davis
- Let me remember all good losers. - Carl Sandberg
- Memento mori (Latin for "Remember you are dying") - Greeting among Trappist Monks
- Reality is inescapable. There simply is no escape hatch - Alan Wallace (Lecture on Dream Yoga)
- As if you could kill time without injuring eternity - Thoreau (Walden)
- ... to stand on the meeting of two eternities; the past and the future, which is precesily the present moment - Thoreau (Walden)
- ... and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived. - Thoreau (Walden)
- No one says "I body" in any language. It's "my body". You are not your body, you are a divine being. - Swami Sridharananda (Lecture on Vedanta Spirituality)
- What is the molecular weight of your last emotion or desire? Many things can not be measured in the physical realm. - Alan Wallace (Lecture on Dream Yoga)
- To multiply because and why, dividing then by now, that I think you'll understand, is how to hump a cow. - ee cummings
- Life is hard, and then you die.
- You have suffered enough, at war with yourself, isn't it time that you won - "Falling Slowly", Once
- What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how
infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and
admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like
a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals—and yet,
to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me … – Hamlet
- I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
Christopher Marlowe
- If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? – Albert Einstein
- I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people. - Sir Isaac Newton
- Try to find some new ground to cover. - Iggy Pop
- Hell is other people - Sarte
- O Nobly Born, O you of glorious origins, remember your radiant true nature, the essence of mind. Trust it. Return to it. It is home.
- Tibetan Book of the Dead
- Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in the eyes of the Divine. If only they could all see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time. There would be more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed... I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.
- Thomas Merton
- James Joyce's, Mr. Duffy "who lived a short distance from his body."
- Too much animal disfigures the civilized human being.
Too much culture makes for a sick animal.
- Jung
- Don't surrender your loneliness
So quickly.
Let it cut more deep.
Let it ferment and season you
As few human
Or even divine ingredients can.
- Hafiz
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