Think about 3
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A series of quotes that I run while folks are coming into a workshop. The quotes provoke conversation among friends and strangers alike... a little informal icebreaker.
Think about 3
- 1. First thought, best thought. Zen saying
- 2. Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese proverb
- 3. Be careful how you interpret the world: it is like that. Erich Heller
- 4. We feel and know that we are eternal. Edmund Spenser
- 5. Teach us delight in simple things And mirth that has no bitter springs. Rudyard Kipling
- 6. Meditation is not a difficult task. It is a way to lead you to your long-lost home. Soen Shaku
- 7. It is better to do the most trifling thing in the world than to regard half an hour as a trifle. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- 8. To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. Chuang-Tsu
- 9. Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead. Oscar Wilde
- 10. We are Like lutes Once held by God. Being away from his warm body Fully explains This Constant Yearning. Ibrh朝m Hfiz
- 11. The way is empty yet use will not drain it. Lao-Tsu
- 12. Learning is a place where paradise can be created. bell hooks
- 13. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. William Shakespeare
- 14. He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. John Ruskin
- 15. Things are always changing, so nothing can be yours. Shunryu Suzuki
- 16. A gloss on Descartes: Sometimes I think and sometimes I am. Paul Valery
- 17. When did the honeysuckle first sense its own perfume? When did smoke learn how to fly? Pablo Neruda
- 18. The only thing that we can know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of reason. Leo Tolstoy
- 19. Right now a moment of time is fleeting by. Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become the moment. Paul Cezanne
- 20. You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. Joseph Jourbet
- 21. When you get there, there isnt any there there. Gertrude Stein
- 22. Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist. Epicurus
- 23. They arrive spontaneously, the principles of all things. Water need not think to offer itself as a home for clear moonlight. Sgi
- 24. The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development. Alfred North Whitehead
- 25. The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained. Kenneth Rexroth
- 26. If you want to see it, see into it directly; but when you stop to think about it , it is altogether missed. Tao-Wu
- 27. If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
- 28. Wherever you are is the entry point. Kabir
- 29. Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown. Claude Bernard
- 30. Art does not reproduce the invisible; rather it makes it visible. Paul Klee
- 31. The world is ruled by letting things take their course. Lao-Tsu
- 32. The moment is the sole reality. Karl Jaspers
- 33. We live in a rainbow of chaos. Paul Cezanne
- 34. Only when we know little things do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge. Goethe
- 35. If you have not lived through something, it is not true. Kabir
- 36. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. T.S. Eliot