Quotes From Others

I present here quotes and short writings from authors that have helped me in my journey.

There are two wolves fighting inside all of us. The first one is evil, the second one is good. Which wolf will win? The one you feed. -Native American Proverb

Don’t keep searching for the truth, just let go of your opinions. -The Buddha

Hardship itself is not only a great teacher, it is fundamental to establishing a sense of unity and courage. -Documentary, Arctic Daughter: A Lifetime of Wilderness

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -Dietrich Bonnhoffer

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. -Mark Twain

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply: by the lives they lead. -James Baldwin

Your concentration is always focused outside, dependent on the material body and the world, instead of inside on the Divine Indweller. That is why you think you have limitations. -To Be Victorious in Life-Paramahamsa Yogananda

There is no fire like lust, no jailer like hate, no snare like infatuation, no torrent like greed. -The Dhammapada, Chapter 18

We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love one another but it doesn’t We are terrorized and flattened by triviality. We are eaten up by nothing. -Charles Bulowski

Most of the things which bring you pleasure are things that satisfy the body. Indeed, this is what marks you as a primitive society. Your lives are structured largely around seeking and experiencing pleasures of the body. -Conversations with God, Book III, page 149

Greed and anger and ignorance are the three poisons. Instead of greed you have generosity, instead of anger you have compassion, instead of ignorance you have wisdom. -The Buddha