Category: Wisdom Traditions

Today’s One-Liner (#131)

If we respected the tenth commandment, the four commandments that precede it would be superfluous. –Rene Girard, Maxim #90, in All Desire Is a Desire for Being: Essential Writings, edited by Cynthia L. Haven

A Simple, Extraordinary Gift/1

“And I am with you, too, I won’t leave you now, I will go with you for the rest of my life,” the dear, deeply felt words of Grushenka came from somewhere near him. And…

Today’s One-Liner (#128)

There are few things… that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the Fair Sex. –Samuel Johnson, in A Johnson…

Today’s One-Liner (#125)

 If you’ve connected with someone in a moment of life, the essence of that person is right there with you even after their death. –Ram Dass, One-Liners:  A Mini-Manuel for a Spiritual Life

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

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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