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« … Unlimited possibilities are not suited to man; if they existed, his life would only dissolve in the boundless… »

— I Ching Hexagram #60

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/742973426906562561/in-nature-there-are-fixed-limits-for-summer-and

#quotes #iching #limitation #morality #duty


« Music exalts each joy, allays each grief,
Expels diseases, softens every pain,
Subdues the rage of poison, and the plague. »

― John Armstrong

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/734637824277725184/music-exalts-each-joy-allays-each-grief-expels

#quotes #JohnArmstrong #music #joy #grief #pain


This advice from Dorothy Parker is too late for those doing #NaNoWriMo, but still helpful!

#quotes #writing #amwriting #writingcommunity
Quote on top of a typewriter:
"If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, teh second greatest favor you can do them is present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy." -Dorothy Parker, The collected Dorothy Parker


« The question for anyone to decide, who hesitates between good and evil, is whether he aspires to be a full-weight man, or merely the fragment, nay, the counterfeit of a man. Only he who ceaselessly aims at moral completeness is, in the true sense, a human being. »

― Felix Adler

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/767705023896535041/the-question-for-anyone-to-decide-who-hesitates

#quotes #FelixAdler #morality #maturity #humanity #good #evil


« In every sphere, we seem to have lost the very elements of intelligence: the ideas of limit, measure, degree, proportion, relation, comparison, contingency, interdependence, interrelation of means and ends. »

― Simone Weil

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/742891333658836992/in-every-sphere-we-seem-to-have-lost-the-very

#quotes #SimoneWeil #intelligence


« There is not one little blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice. »

— John Calvin

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/734547815030784000/there-is-not-one-little-blade-of-grass-there-is

#quotes #JohnCalvin #joy #diversity #colourful


« To cease from evil, to do good, and to purify the mind yourself, this is the teaching of all the Buddhas. »

― Gautama Buddha

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/767618607240953856/to-cease-from-evil-to-do-good-and-to-purify-the

#quotes #GautamaBuddha #buddha #buddhism #purity #good #evil #dharma


« Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy. »

— Saint Teresa of Calcutta

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/734466133128871936/joy-is-prayer-joy-is-strength-joy-is-love-joy

#quotes #SaintTeresaOfCalcutta #joy #giving #prayer #love


« Keen intelligence is two-edged, It may be used constructively or destructively like a knife, either to cut the boil of ignorance, or to decapitate one's self. Intelligence is rightly guided only after the mind has acknowledged the inescapability of spiritual law. »

― Yukteswar Giri

https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/742711040273432576/keen-intelligence-is-two-edged-it-may-be-used

#quotes #YukteswarGiri #PriyanathKarar #intelligence #SpiritualLaw


« We all need joy, and we can all receive joy in only one way, by adding to the joy of others. »

— Eknath Easwaran

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/734374431097503744/we-all-need-joy-and-we-can-all-receive-joy-in

#quotes #EknathEaswaran #joy #interbeing


« Meditation and worship helps to purify the mind. Looking at beauty in the world is the first step of purifying the mind. A corrupted mind can't recognize the beauty of the world. A pure mind perceives it. A pure mind is the source of happiness. »

― Amit Ray

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/767428728819269632/meditation-and-worship-helps-to-purify-the-mind

#quotes #AmitRay #purity #meditation #zazen #zen #worship #beauty #happiness


« No longer let thy breathing only act in concert with the air which surrounds thee, but let thy intelligence also now be in harmony with the intelligence which embraces all things. »

― Marcus Aurelius

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/742623013144592384/no-longer-let-thy-breathing-only-act-in-concert

#quotes #MarcusAurelius #DivineIntelligence #harmony


« Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. »

— Rollo May

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/734275441325752320/joy-rather-than-happiness-is-the-goal-of-life

#quotes #RolloMay #joy #happiness #goals #life #nature #purpose


« One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure. »

― Friedrich Nietzsche

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/767336541445095424/one-must-be-a-sea-to-receive-a-polluted-stream

#quotes #FriedrichNietzsche #purity


« In the great body of human society it is impossible to establish unity and coordination if one part is considered perfect and the other imperfect. When the perfect functions of both parts are in operation, harmony will prevail. God has created man and woman equal as to faculties. He has made no distinction between them. »

— `Abdu'l-Bahá

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/742532843851350016/in-the-great-body-of-human-society-it-is

#quotes #AbdulBahá #BaháíFaith #harmony #perfection #interbeing #oneness #unity


« For the spiritual power of a sacrament is like light in this way: it is both received pure by those to be enlightened, and if it passes through the impure it is not defiled. »

― Augustine of Hippo

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/767259397127913472/for-the-spiritual-power-of-a-sacrament-is-like

#quotes #AugustineOfHippo #StAugustine #light #spirit #purity #power #spiritual


« Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should … »

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/742441821913939968/feelings-whether-of-compassion-or-irritation

#quotes #ThíchNhấtHạnh #mindfulness #interbeing #unity #oneness


« He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
If the Sun and Moon should doubt,
They'd immediately go out. »

— William Blake

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/734094241939275776/if-the-sun-and-moon-should-doubt-theyd

#quotes #WilliamBlake #poetry #poems #moon #sun #faith #trust


« We are like sleepwalkers, not knowing what we are doing or where we are heading. Whether we can wake up or not depends on whether we can walk mindfully on our Mother Earth. The future of all life, including our own, depends on our mindful steps. »

― Thích Nhất Hạnh

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/742348032331366401/we-are-like-sleepwalkers-not-knowing-what-we-are

#quotes #ThíchNhấtHạnh #mindfulness #DivineGuidance


« The heroes, the wise men, like the new moon have their waxing and waning. »

— the Epic of Gilgamesh

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/733999929161318400/the-heroes-the-wise-men-like-the-new-moon-have

#quotes #EpicOfGilgamesh #poetry #poems #moon #heroes #WiseMen


« In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. »

― Blaise Pascal

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/767057724135636992/in-faith-there-is-enough-light-for-those-who-want

#quotes #BlaisePascal #light #shadows #faith


« Soon as the evening shades prevail,
The moon takes up the wondrous tale,
And nightly to the listening earth
Repeats the story of her birth.
While all the stars that round her burn,
And all the planets in their turn,
Confirm the tidings as they roll,
And spread the truth from pole to pole. »

— Joseph Addison

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/733925337696698368/soon-as-the-evening-shades-prevail-the-moon-takes

#quotes #JosephAddison #poetry #moon #stars #poems


« This evening, too
the Sun had to tell the same story
before he went away,
leaving the forlorn moon
hankering after his light. »

― Suman Pokhrel

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/766979351812145152/this-evening-too-the-sun-had-to-tell-the-same

#quotes #SumanPokhrel #light #sun #moon #poetry #poems


« The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted. »

― Diogenes Laërtius

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/766888817545412609/the-sun-too-shines-into-cesspools-and-is-not

#quotes #DiogenesLaërtius #light #suns #purity


« The story of our relationship to the earth is written more truthfully on the land than on the page. It lasts there. The land remembers what we said and what we did. »

― Robin Wall Kimmerer

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/742077072175972353/the-story-of-our-relationship-to-the-earth-is

#quotes #RobinWallKimmerer #nature #interbeing #land #earth


If one considers everything well, one will find something appears to be virtue, which if pursued would be one's ruin, and something else appears to be vice, which if pursued results in one's security and well-being.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #NiccoloMachiavelli #Security #Vice #Virtue

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Palms #Florida
photo by richard rathe


« Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. »

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/766791182597718016/light-is-the-first-of-painters-there-is-no-object

#quotes #RalphWaldoEmerson #light #painting #beauty


« For me, writing is an act of reciprocity with the world; it is what I can give back in return for everything that has been given to me. »

― Robin Wall Kimmerer

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/741986895849046017/for-me-writing-is-an-act-of-reciprocity-with-the

#quotes #writing #RobinWallKimmerer #GiftEconomy #reciprocity #interbeing #unity #oneness


« Every vital social movement immediately begins to generate art-songs, poetry, posters, murals, novels-an outpouring of the creativity that people will create from even the smallest crumbs of hope. »

― Aurora Levins Morales

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/733648807411236864/every-vital-social-movement-immediately-begins-to

#quotes #AuroraLevinsMorales #art #arts #SocialMovement #creativity #hope


« Heaven from the hopeless doubter
The true believer makes:
Against the darkness outer
The light God's likeness takes. »

― Richard Watson Gilder

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/766700693789786112/heaven-from-the-hopeless-doubter-the-true-believer

#quotes #RichardWatsonGilder #faith #doubt #light #darkness #heaven #god #poetry