“Do not say the mind monarch is empty in having no essential nature; it can cause the physical body to do wrong or do right. Neither being nor nonbeing, it is concealed and revealed without fixation. Although the essence of mind is empty, it can be ordinary and can be saintly: therefore I urge you to guard it yourself carefully — a moment of contrivance, and you go back to bobbing and sinking. The knowledge of the pure clean mind is as yellow gold to the world; the spiritual treasury of wisdom is all in the body and mind. The uncreated spiritual treasure is neither shallow nor deep.”
—Fu Shan-hui
November 2010
“We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.”
—Tom Waits
When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up?
I wanted to be an astronaut.
If you could go back in time 10 years and tell your younger self something, what would it be?
“The only real privacy is inside your own head.”
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Practice What You Preach
Businessman Danie de Toit made a speech to an audience in South Africa. The topic of his speech was: watch out because death can strike you down at any time.
At the end of his speech, he put a peppermint in his mouth, and choked to death on it.
“We need to see that love isn’t all just chocolates and roses. It’s not supposed to be always sweet, happy, touching and warm. Love could be cold and strict when it needs to be, alone when space is needed, and sad when it has to be. Don’t expect love to always make you feel good, but do expect it to make you grow in ways you never thought you would.”
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