Favourite quotes

[Rose]

Hi all,

 

Wanted to start this thread, idk if it already exists.

 

Here is my favourite one today:

 

“Opinions are like assholes - everyone has one” (yes, perhaps not the best quote to start the thread with 😅🍑)

 

 

Edited June 13 by Rose

[Joseph Maynor]

"Ignorance is the source of corruption and all evil" -- Plato

[Daniel]

@Rose I believe the full quote is, 'Opinions are like assholes - everyone has one, and they all stink.'🤣

[Phil]

"Be the change you wish to see in the world."

MG

[Mandy]

“Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest on reciprocity.”

― C.S. Lewis

[Mandy]

“Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.” - Rumi

[Mandy]

"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth." -Rumi

[Joseph Maynor]

"Ignorance is the seed of all miseries.  Knowledge of Brahman is cessation of all ignorance." -- Adi Shankara

[Joseph Maynor]

"He [Brahman] knows the knowable, and of Him there is no knower." -- Adi Shankara

Edited June 13 by Joseph Maynor

[Joseph Maynor]

"[Knowledge of Brahman is the] total eradication of the seed of worldly existence" -- Adi Shankara

[Joseph Maynor]

7 hours ago, Daniel said:

@Rose I believe the full quote is, 'Opinions are like assholes - everyone has one, and they all stink.'🤣

 

Here's a corollary to your quote-- "The other's farts always smell horrible; my own farts stink but never as badly." -- Joseph Maynor

Edited June 13 by Joseph Maynor

[Daniel]

4 hours ago, Joseph Maynor said:

 

Here's a corollary to your quote-- "The other's farts always smell horrible; my own farts stink but never as badly." -- Joseph Maynor

😄

 

All this talk of opinions puts me in mind of another quote, by Seng-ts'an: 'Do not search for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.'

[Joseph Maynor]

"What is food for one man may be bitter poison to others" -- Lucretius

aka "One man's meat is another man's poison".

Edited June 14 by Joseph Maynor

[Enlightened Cat]

9 hours ago, Mandy said:

“Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest on reciprocity.”

― C.S. Lewis

Love this one!

[Mandy]

13 hours ago, Daniel said:

😄

 

All this talk of opinions puts me in mind of another quote, by Seng-ts'an: 'Do not search for the truth; only cease to cherish opinions.'

Ooo... that's a good one. 

[Daniel]

11 hours ago, Mandy said:

Ooo... that's a good one. 

Yep, I've definitely come to see the wisdom of that one in recent years.

[Joseph Maynor]

"Maya is inferred from the fact of its being the limiting adjunct of Brahman that appears to be the seed of name and form." -- Adi Shankara, Commentary on Mundaka Upanishad

Edited June 16 by Joseph Maynor

[Joseph Maynor]

“[Brahman] is unborn, and hence it is ageless, deathless and immutable, constant and fearless.” — Ari Shankara, Commentary on Mundaka Upanishad

[Joseph Maynor]

"It is possible in a context where the Self appears as a conditioned thing through identification with the limiting adjunct, intellect, so as to have such apparent activities as knowing the Self by the self." -- Adi Shankara, Commentary on Kena Upanishad

For all of you who think The Self = Mind.

[Joseph Maynor]

"It has been said that when the mind is divested of ideation by virtue of the realisation of the Truth that is Brahman, and when there is an absence of external objects of perception, it becomes tranquil, controlled, and withdrawn like fire that has no fuel.  And it has been further said that when the mind thus ceases to be the mind, duality also disappears." -- Adi Shankara, Commentary on Gaudapada Karika

Edited July 3 by Joseph Maynor