Jung for the Day

A quote by Jung for this day:

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. 

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

One to Hold Tightly

A couple of quotes I collected over the past week or so:

Statistics are no substitute for judgment. 

— Henry Clay

Beware of what you want - for you will get it. 

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

And one I'm holding tightly:

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

― Rumi

Seeking You

Miscellaneous quotes, requirements for the journey:

Lou Holtz:

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.” 

Kurt Vonnegut, from Mother Night

“We are what we pretend to be, 

so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” 

Zora Neale Hurston, from Their Eyes Were Watching God

“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” 

Albert Einstein:

“Imagination is the highest form of research.” 

Rumi:

“What you seek is seeking you.” 

The Way

The way is not in the sky.
The way is in the heart.

Buddha

Heroes

Nurture your minds with great thoughts.
To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
     -- Benjamin Disraeli

Wilde Thoughts

Oscar said:

Keep love in your heart.

A life without it is like a sunless garden

when the flowers are dead.

 

Every saint has a past

and every sinner has a future.

 

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live,

it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

 

An idea that is not dangerous

is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

 

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

 

Believe in Something

Several quotes from Mahatma Gandhi. They remain powerful regardless of the number of times I have read them.

The weak can never forgive. 

Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. 

Learn as if you were to live forever.

To believe in something, 

and not to live it, is dishonest.

Significant Impression

More from the Dalai Lama:

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, 

and sometimes one creates as significant an impression 

by remaining silent.

From the Lama

More wisdom from the Dalai Lama:

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. 

Without them humanity cannot survive.

Good Attitude, Good Heart

A quote from the Dalai Lama on this beautiful Friday:

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Losing Our Balance

Thought for the day, courtesy of Shunryu Suzuki Roshi:

When we lose our balance,

we die,

but at the same time

we also develop ourselves,

we grow...

That Invisible Shadow

Wise words from Eudora Welty:

My continuing passion is to part the curtain,
That invisible shadow that falls between people,
The veil of indifference to each other's presence,
Each other's wonder,
Each other's human plight.

If I Feel

Beautiful words and a great way to stay connected to the power we have to direct our lives -- from Og Mandino:

If I feel depressed, I will sing. 

If I feel sad, I will laugh. 

If I feel ill, I will double my labor. 

If I feel fear, I will plunge ahead. 

If I feel inferior, I will wear new garments. 

If I feel uncertain, I will raise my voice. 

If I feel poverty, I will think of wealth to come. 

If I feel incompetent, I will think of past success. 

If I feel insignificant, I will remember my goals. 

Today, I will be the master of my emotions.

Food Quotes: Part Two

No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit,
 a light hand, and a large heart.

-- Paul Gauguin

What does cookery mean? It means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe,
 and of Calypso, and Sheba. It means knowledge of all herbs, and fruits, and
 balms and spices... It means the economy of your great-grandmother and the
 science of modern chemistry, and French art, and Arabian hospitality. It
 means, in fine, that you are to see imperatively that everyone has something 
nice to eat.


-- John Ruskin 

In cooking, as in the arts, simplicity is a sign of perfection.


-- Curnonsky

Watch a French housewife as she makes her way slowly along the 
loaded stalls… searching for the peak of ripeness and flavor…
What you are seeing is a true artist at work, patiently assembling
 all the materials of her craft, just as the painter squeezes oil colors
 onto his palette ready to create a masterpiece.


-- Keith Floyd

 If the divine creator has taken pains to give us delicious and exquisite
 things to eat, the least we can do is prepare them well and serve them
 with ceremony.


-- Fernand Point

Food Quotes: Part One

A recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play 
each time with a variation.


-- Madame Benoit

The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palms, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the
 winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it seems to 
rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth.
 A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.


-- Lawrence Durrell

We should look for someone to eat and drink with before looking

for something to eat and drink,

for dining alone is leading the life 
of a lion or wolf.


-- Epicurus

Let the progress of the meal be slow,

for dinner is the last business of the day;

and let the guests conduct themselves 
like travelers

due to reach their destination together.

-- Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

If the soup had been as warm as the wine;

if the wine had been as old as the turkey;


and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,


it would have been a swell dinner.


-- Duncan Hines

Quotes on Yellow Sticky

A large yellow Post-It curls at the edges. It has been on my desk for a long, long time. Waiting to have something done with it. Well, here goes:

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
     -- John Barth

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
     -- ee cummings

We consume our tomorrows fretting about our yesterdays.
     -- Aulus Persius Flaccus

It is the fine excesses of life that make it worth living.
     -- Richard Le Gallienne

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.
     -- Nikki Giovanni

If now isn't a good time for the truth I don't see when we'll get to it.
     -- Nikki Giovanni

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
     -- Niccki Giovanni (wise dude)

He only profits from praise who values criticism.
     -- Heinrich Heine

So there you have it...

Never blows so red

From April 1st:

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

-- John Barth

Creativity is the residue of time wasted.

-- Einstein

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

-- Heinrich Heine

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

-- ee cummings

Cummings, Camus, and Hemingway on April 1st

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers 

is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

-- Ben Hecht

Once we believe in ourselves, 

we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, 

or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

-- EE Cummings

When I'm at my best, it's because I'm taking care of myself.

-- Michelle Gass

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards.

Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

-- Francis Quarles

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising 

one's levels of aspiration and expectation.

-- Jack Nicklaus

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

-- Marcus Aurelius

One cool judgement is worth a dozen hasty councils.

The thing to do is supply light not heat.

-- Woodrow Wilson

In the depths of winter I finally learned

there was in me an invincible summer.

-- Albert Camus

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

-- William Hazlitt

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do 

what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.

-- Willis R Whitney

Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. 

It is our capacity to mold ourselves.

-- Rollo May

Never confuse movement with action.

-- Ernest Hemingway

More from the April 1st Project

Here's the latest, and a reminder that you can click and enlarge the images.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. 

The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

-- Unknown

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, 

never regains its original dimensions.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, 

you'll never get it done.

-- Bruce Lee

Go fast alone.

Go far together.

-- African Proverb

Good artists steal.

Bad artists borrow.

-- Alex Katz

Truth, like surgery, may hurt,

but it cures.

-- Han Snyln

Too many people overvalue what they are not,

and undervalue what they are.

-- Malcolm Forbes

Those who do nothing are never wrong.

-- Theodore de Bouville

Don't try to innovate for the future.

Innovate for the present.

-- Peter Drucker

Is anybody alive out there?

-- Bruce Springsteen (to the crowd)

You must understand 'and' -- and more

I just started Volume 5 of the April 1st Project and already so much to share.

'The lone ranger is dead.' -- Warren Bennis

Reading his book On Becoming a Leader and clearly see why he has been so influential.

He shared that Ralph Waldo Emerson used to hail friends he had not seen for a long time with the greeting: 'What's become clear to you since we last met?' -- I love it.

More Bennis: Everything we learn about creativity suggests that money is more often an obstacle to creative work than an incentive.

Discovered BigWords.com and Half.com

"Education...has produced a vast population able to read 

but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."

-- G.M. Trevelyan

"The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment."

-- Celia Green

Discovered Newswordy and love it. Became addicted to CoverSpy and think it is quite clever.

Ancient Sufi Teaching:

You think 

because you understand one that you must understand two

because one and one makes two. 

But...

you must understand 'and.'

Google went public seven years ago (August 19) at $85 per share. It now trades (on August 19 it did) at $495.

Burger King retired 'The King' -- really?

In a mention about the book The Princess and The Goblin, it was noted that a characters says that a name is one of those things you can give away and keep at the same time. (I really love this thought.)

"Man is only half himself,

the other half is his expression."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only thing that matters in art can't be explained."

-- Braque

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

-- Stephen Hawking

"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."

-- Albert Camus

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,

while others judge us by what we have already done."

-- Henry Wordsworth Longfellow

"The hills of one's youth are all mountains."

-- Mari Sandoz

"People who know how to employ themselves, always find leisure moments,

while those who do nothing are forever in a hurry."

-- Marie-Jeanne Roland

Books:
Life on the Stoop by Phil Bracco
Blankets by Craig Thompson

Lincoln Monument: Monticello: 1 : 5
The Lincoln Monument appears on the back of the penny, and Monticello appears on the back of a nickel.

Unbowed: Not having submitted to pressure or demands.

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Hope September is going well. Here's to understanding 'and' -- and so much more.