November 2010
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Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and...
– from the Tao Te Ching, by Lao-tzu, Stephen Mitchell translation, via Jim Burke (via lukescommonplacebook)
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Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness
– Werner Herzog (via tartarvs) (via originalface)
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Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it...
– Buddha (via dailyinspiredthoughts)
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The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe,...
– Matsuo Basho (via sacredgraffiti)
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The master said, ‘Learn about a pine tree from a pine tree, and about a bamboo...
– Matsuo Basho (via sacredgraffiti)
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But what’s to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (Notes From Underground) (via trashingdays) (via dostoyevsky)
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At some ideas you stand perplexed, especially at the sight of human sins,...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via dostoyevsky)
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The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small...
– Rabindranath Tagore (via strange-eyes)
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