09-21-2010, 12:00 AM
Here's some good ones:
The characteristic of miserable seers is that they are willing to forget the wonder of the world. They become overwhelmed by the fact that they see and believe that it's their genius that counts.
Seeing is a peculiar feeling of knowing, of knowing something without a shadow of doubt.
There is no completeness without sadness and longing, for
without them there is no sobriety, no kindness. Wisdom without
kindness and knowledge without sobriety are useless.
When nothing is for sure we remain
alert, perennially on our toes. It is more
exciting not to know which bush the rabbit
is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.
For an average man, the world is
weird because if he's not bored with it,
he's at odds with it. For a warrior, the
world is weird because it is stupendous,
awesome, mysterious, unfathomable. A
warrior must assume responsibility for
being here, in this marvelous world, in
this marvelous time.
Every living thing has been granted
the power, if it so desires, to seek an
opening to freedom and go through it.
Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I.
We talk to ourselves incessantly
about our world. In fact we maintain our
world with our internal talk. And whenever
we finish talking to ourselves about
ourselves and our world, the world is
always as it should be. We renew it, we
rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our
internal talk. Not only that, but we also
choose our paths as we talk to ourselves.
Thus we repeat the same choices over
and over until the day we die, because we
keep on repeating the same internal talk
over and over until the day we die. A warrior
is aware of this and strives to stop
his internal talk.
Seeing must be direct, for a warrior can't use his time
to unravel what he himself is seeing . Seeing is seeing because it cuts through
all that nonsense. In the beginning seeing is confusing and it's easy to get lost in it.
As the warrior gets tighter, however, his seeing becomes what it should be,
a direct knowing. A warrior asks a question, and through his seeing he gets an answer,
but the answer is simple.
Once inner silence is attained, everything
is possible. The way to stop talking
to ourselves is to use exactly the same
method used to teach us to talk to
ourselves; we were taught compulsively
and unwaveringly, and this is the
way we must stop it: compulsively and
unwaveringly.
I am already given to the power that rules my fate.
And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend.
I have no thoughts, so I will see.
I fear nothing, so I will remember myself.
Happy painting Totem!
The characteristic of miserable seers is that they are willing to forget the wonder of the world. They become overwhelmed by the fact that they see and believe that it's their genius that counts.
Seeing is a peculiar feeling of knowing, of knowing something without a shadow of doubt.
There is no completeness without sadness and longing, for
without them there is no sobriety, no kindness. Wisdom without
kindness and knowledge without sobriety are useless.
When nothing is for sure we remain
alert, perennially on our toes. It is more
exciting not to know which bush the rabbit
is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.
For an average man, the world is
weird because if he's not bored with it,
he's at odds with it. For a warrior, the
world is weird because it is stupendous,
awesome, mysterious, unfathomable. A
warrior must assume responsibility for
being here, in this marvelous world, in
this marvelous time.
Every living thing has been granted
the power, if it so desires, to seek an
opening to freedom and go through it.
Nobody knows who I am or what I do. Not even I.
We talk to ourselves incessantly
about our world. In fact we maintain our
world with our internal talk. And whenever
we finish talking to ourselves about
ourselves and our world, the world is
always as it should be. We renew it, we
rekindle it with life, we uphold it with our
internal talk. Not only that, but we also
choose our paths as we talk to ourselves.
Thus we repeat the same choices over
and over until the day we die, because we
keep on repeating the same internal talk
over and over until the day we die. A warrior
is aware of this and strives to stop
his internal talk.
Seeing must be direct, for a warrior can't use his time
to unravel what he himself is seeing . Seeing is seeing because it cuts through
all that nonsense. In the beginning seeing is confusing and it's easy to get lost in it.
As the warrior gets tighter, however, his seeing becomes what it should be,
a direct knowing. A warrior asks a question, and through his seeing he gets an answer,
but the answer is simple.
Once inner silence is attained, everything
is possible. The way to stop talking
to ourselves is to use exactly the same
method used to teach us to talk to
ourselves; we were taught compulsively
and unwaveringly, and this is the
way we must stop it: compulsively and
unwaveringly.
I am already given to the power that rules my fate.
And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend.
I have no thoughts, so I will see.
I fear nothing, so I will remember myself.
Happy painting Totem!