Daily Wisdom Saying - Page 12

Susma Rio Sep · 03-03-2004, 12:44 PM

Getting a car to run
is not as critical as getting it to stop.

-- Cynicus Anonymus

Susma Rio Sep

juantoo3 · 03-04-2004, 09:59 PM

"We grow too soon old, and too late wise."

-Pennsylvania Dutch proverb

juantoo3 · 03-04-2004, 10:04 PM

1. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
2. Procrastinate today! (Tomorrow may be too late.)
3. NOW is the time to do things later!
4. If at first you don't succeed, why try again?
-Woods' Laws of Procrastination

"I would procrastinate, but I haven't gotten around to it yet."
-Bishop's Addendum to Wood's Laws of Procrastination

JJM · 03-05-2004, 01:10 AM

Do you know why Satan is angry all the time? Because when ever he works a particularly clever bit of mischief God uses it to serve his own righteous purpose.

-Orson Scott Card Enders Shadow

JJM · 03-05-2004, 01:14 AM

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language or music without atmosphere.
-James Martineau

JJM · 03-05-2004, 01:19 AM

We ought to act with simplicity, Speaking to him frankly and plainly and imploring his assistance in our affairs, just as they happen.

-Brother Lawrence

JJM · 03-05-2004, 01:25 AM

In seasons of distress and grief,
my soul has often found relief,
and oft escaped the tempter’s snare ,
by thy return, sweet hour of prayer.

-W.W. Walford

JJM · 03-05-2004, 01:34 AM

An appeaser in one who feeds a crocodile--Hoping is will eat him last!

-Winston Churchill

JJM · 03-05-2004, 01:39 AM

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but stays at his post and fights the enemy.

-Socrates

JJM · 03-05-2004, 01:40 AM

Nothing is preferred before Justice.

-Socrates

JJM · 03-05-2004, 01:42 AM

If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

-Socrates

JJM · 03-05-2004, 01:54 AM

The Lord is my light and salvation:
whom do I fear?
The Lord is my life’s refuge:
of whom am I afraid?
-Psalm 27:1

JJM · 03-05-2004, 01:55 AM

Better a theif than an invenerate liar, yet both will suffer discrace.

-Sirach 20:24

JJM · 03-05-2004, 02:01 AM

Hatred stirs up disputes but love covers all offenses.

-Proverbs 10:12

zenmonk_genryu · 03-05-2004, 03:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Susma Rio Sep

Of course being Buddhist or Zen-ist gives the enhusiasts a label for which they can claim distinction and some sense of superior differentiation.

Susma Rio Sep

Actually it's the reverse. It means you've stopped thinking that your ego is the be all and end all of the universe and you no longer take refuge in it, nor in the delusions that a particular belief system will save you, nor that what you have in your bank will make you happy, nor that having the right image will free you in any way. So it's more letting go of all labels than taking on a new one. This might be difficult to understand from the standpoint of those who read about Buddhism and don't practice because the dualistic mind actually can't fully comprehend what it is to be without labels, and what it is to not need to feel superior. Oh and Zen is Buddhist by the way.