Category: Wisdom Traditions

Today’s One-Liner (#124)

It was not in vain that the ancient Fathers used to say: sit in your cell and it will teach you everything. –John B. Dunlap, Staretz Amvrosy, Model for Dostoevsky’s Staretz Zossima, 150

Today’s One-Liner (#123)

We must endure what is hard to endure and persevere in that which is hard to persevere in.   –Tempo Roshi, quoted in Eido T. Shimano, Endless Vow:  The Zen Path of Soen Nakagawa

Today’s One-Liner (#122)

The work of extending your goodness and correcting your faults must never stop.  –Liu Wenmin,  J. C. Cleary, Worldly Wisdom: Confucian Teachings of the Ming Dynasty

Recent Reading

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Today’s One-Liner (#118)

Neglect of things which are profitable and necessary and undue concern with those which are irrelevant and harmful, are great folly.  –Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ

Today’s One-Liner (#115)

There are three crowns: the crown of learning, the crown of priesthood, and the crown of royalty; but the crown of a good name excels them all. –R. Simeon, in Joseph Hertz, Sayings of the…

Thought of the Day

There are people who ponder about their friends’ shortcomings: there’s nothing to be gained by that. I have always been on the look-out for the merits of my opponents and this has been rewarding. –Johann…

Today’s One-Liner (#113)

When we keep pointing a finger of judgment at others, we are teaching our mind a lasting habit of condemnation.  –Eknath Easwaran, Original Goodness: On the Beatitudes, 160