.. Circle Cafe - Quotes .. "When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." Words are among one of the greatest ways to express our soul. Sadly, they are also one of the most misinterpreted too. "Only in their dreams can men be truly free, 'Twas always thus, and always thus shall be." "Sometimes your whole world has to crash down before you realize what you have, and what you don't want." "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Emerson "We each define our god, and from this definition, we set the criteria for self-love." - Marjorie A. Neufer "Always remember there are certain people who set their watches by your clock." -Anon "Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am the master of my fate and captain of my soul." -D.Hofstadter "There is nothing truly hidden, But what is not conceivable." - Enigma of the Bards If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything. -Confucius If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think they'll hate you. Don't LOOK at anything in a physics lab. Don't TASTE anything in a chemistry lab. Don't SMELL anything in a biology lab. Don't TOUCH anything in a medical lab. and, most importantly, Don't LISTEN to anything in a philosophy department. -Bill Lye If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. - Buddha (B.C. 568-488) For the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. - II Corinthians 4:18 The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darknesses. - Kazantzakis There is Buddha for those who don't know what he is, really. There is no Buddha for those who know what he is, really. - Zen saying We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. - Goethe (1749-1832) "By belief in absolutes you deny all movement, evolutionary or otherwise. When change occurs, your universe collapses." "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." "To see a World in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of you hand, And eternity in an hour." -William Blake "The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einstein "All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten. Therefore it is said that one vital energy pervades the world. Consequently, the sage values Oneness." -Chuang-tzu Some there are that torment themselves afresh with the memory of what is past; others, again, afflict themselves with the apprehension of evils to come; and very ridiculously both--for the one does not now concern us, and the other not yet ... One should count each day a separate life. -Seneca "A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees." -William Blake Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. - Susan Ertz I can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and I can do you blood and rhetoric without the love and I can do you all three concurrent or consecutive but I can't do you love and rhetoric without blood. Blood is compulsory--they're all blood you see. - Tom Stoppard They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora Time is the moving image of reality. - Plato Article...In dream consciousness...we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator. In our creativity we prolong the magic action of the Creator of All in the overflow of His imagination, which is all that reality is, or ever will be. - Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (born 1916) "As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live." - Goethe If a man's mind becomes pure, his surroundings will also become pure. - Buddha (B.C. 568-488 Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. - John Locke Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot. - Pope (1688-1744) "Only after the last tree has been cut down; Only after the last fish has been caught; Only after the last river has been poisoned; Only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten." - Cree Indian Prophecy We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know. - W H Auden Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. - Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger and we will make not only our own happiness, but that of the world at large. - Mahatma Gandhi You can't lose anything because you never had it. The only thing you've ever really had is yourself. - Deepak Chopra, The Way Of The Wizard Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered. - H. P. Blavatsky (1831-1891) The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim (1882-1932) It is impossible to found a lasting stronghold within on anything less that the understanding that God is a God of joy. It is through our realization of this truth that we drink heartily of the wine of life. - Charles Fillmore As you believe, so you become. As you become, so you believe. - Author Unknown Seekers look into the crises that most people shun, because from hurt or failure or disaster, one can seize the deepest truth. - Deepak Chopra, The Way Of The Wizard There is but one failure, and that is, not to be true to the very best one knows. - Frederic William Farrar Not to be cheered by praise, Not to be grieved by blame, But to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers Are the characteristics of an excellent man. - Saskya Pandita (1182-1251) You are a rich and creative spiritual being. You can never be less than this. You may frustrate your potential. You may identify with that which is less than what you can be. But within you now and always is the unborn possibility of a limitless experience of inner stability and outer treasure., and yours is the privilege of giving birth to it. And you will, if you can believe. - Eric Butterworth, Spiritual Economics He who does not attempt to make peace When small discords arise, Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey... Soon, the whole hive collapses. - Nagarjuna (c. 100-200 A.D.) The real meaning of enlightenment is to gaze with undimmed eyes on all darknesses. - Kazantzakis You are what your deep driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny. - Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5 Desire is what leads you through life until the time comes when you desire a higher life. So do not be ashamed that you want so much, yet at the same time do not fool yourself into thinking that what you want today will be enough tomorrow. - Deepak Chopra, The Way Of The Wizard Your life is conditioned by your own thoughts; not by the thoughts of anyone else. - Emmet Fox The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are there. - Yasutani Roshi How terrible to watch a man who has the Incomprehensible within his grasp, doesn't know what to do, and sits down playing with a toy called God. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Respect yourself most of all. -Pythagoras (B.C. 582-507) In deep silence we return to the ultimate cause, pure being. There you come face to face with the womb of creation, the source of all that was, is or will be, which is simply - yourself. - Deepak Chopra, The Way Of The Wizard "The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself." - George Bernard Shaw Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it's a small price to pay for living a dream. - Peter McWilliams Intense love does not measure; it just gives. - Mother Teresa (1910-1997) It takes a person who is wide awake to make their dream come true. -Roger Babson (1875-1967) We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. -Goethe (1749-1832) The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. -Albert Einstein "Be careful down there on Earth, It's close to the ground and somebody could get hurt." -Mir Crew "Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well too." -Storey Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. -Lactantius (260-340 A.D.) "There are those who tell us that our ambitions are too high and no single group much less a single man can make a change in the dangerous career of the Earth. But those men do not know their own history. Only single men and determind groups can create a space in which man can walk free." -L. Ron Hubbard Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse thannothing. -Sydney Smith (1771-1845) The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear. -Socrates (B.C. 469-399) The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. -Martin Luther King Jr. "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover!" - Mark Twain May we never let the things we can’t have, or don’t have, or shouldn’t have, spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have. As we value our happiness, let us not forget it, for one of the greatest lessons in life is learning to be happy without the things we cannot or should not have. -Richard L. Evans Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action. -Orison Swett Marden Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence. -Emerson (1803-1882) I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do. - Edward Everett Hale Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. -Emerson (1803-1882) True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. -Akhenaton (c. B.C. 1375) Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past. -Frederick Henry Hedge (1805-1890) Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. - Eleanor Roosevelt God has delivered yourself to your care, and says: I had no one fitter to trust than you. - Epictetus To learn and not do is the same as not learning at all. To enter one's own self, it is necessary to go armed to the teeth. - Paul Valery Hold fast your dreams! Within your heart. Keep on some still, secret spot. Where dreams may go. And sheltered so, May thrive and grow- Where dobts and fear are not. Oh, keep a place apart Within your heart For little dreams to go. Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart. - Mother Teresa (1910-1997) If we fill our hours with regrets of yesterday and with worries of tomorrow, we have no today in which to be thankful. "Turn your face to the sun and the shadows will fall behind you." If we pray, we will believe; If we believe, we will love; If we love, we will serve. - Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Though one decision alone, probably won't change your life radically, a series of them can have an amazing effect. Every decision we make -- no matter how small -- leads us in some way, either closer to our goals and wishes or farther away from them. When you no longer think of good or evil, What is your original face? If you turn your light towards the interior, you will discover the precious secret within yourself. - Hui Neng What we believe is based on our perceptions. What we perceive depends on what we look for. What we look for depends on what we think. What we think depends on what we perceive. What we perceive determines what we take to be true. What we take to be true is our reality. - Zukav “There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is; nor how valuable it is; nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours, clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep directly open to and aware of the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction; a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.” -Martha Graham If you stand straight, do not fear a crooked shadow. - Chinese Proverb If an eye never falls asleep, All dreams will by themselves cease: If the mind retains its absoluteness, The ten thousand things are of one suchness. - Seng-T'San (540?-606 A.D.) Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest Consequence. -Shakespeare, Macbeth All the world's a stage, And all the men and woman merely players. They have their exits and entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts. - Shakespeare, As You Like It Emerged from a shroud of deceit and lies, I stand proud and wiser for all to behold. No longer am I hidden by the mask I once wore. I am free...Like never before. He who fights with monsters might take care, lest he thereby becomes a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil" "Why are we here? It is better here than nowhere. We are here to experience reality and be a creative force in the universe. We are also here to love one another and preserve the world in which we live. May your life be constructive and meaningful." -Dave Eddy There will come a time, When you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or savoring of loneliness. -Poppy Z. Brite, Lost Souls One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius. - Henri-Frederic Amiel No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. - Henry B. Adams Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant The paper burns, but the words fly away. - Ben Joseph Akiba It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. - Alfred Adler What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. - Aristotle Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. - James Baldwin The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. - James Baldwin "But only in their dreams can men be truly free. Twas always thus, and always thus shall be." -Dead Poets Society "People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to re-assure themselves that they are real." -Ani DiFranco "You never know when you're making a memory." "Sometimes the more I get to know someone, the more I realize I don't." -LiQing "The only safe rule is to give more than we can spare." -C.S. Lewis "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation." -Henry David Thoreau "...poetry is more philosophic than history, since its statements are of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars."-Arisotle "They can't hurt you unless you let them." -Everclear "I need to find myself today before I ever find my way back to you." -Lizzie "Love shortens time, changes the hours. Love is invincible. Many waters cannot quench it nor the floods drown. The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved." "People change and forget to tell each other." -Hellman "Isn't it thrilling when the thoughts and feelings so flood your being you're almost afraid you won't be able to capture them all on the page?" -Bill Koller "I believe that to search - to challenge - to change, is to live and grow. To become defined is to begin to die." -Bill Koller  "Only a fools tests the depth of the water with both feet." -African proverb "Most of us live in a cultural trance--a state of paralysis created by our habitual responses...The body doesnt stop at the skin. Our boundaries are not as fixed as they seem." -Emilie Conrad-Da'oud "The Self cannot be pierced by weapons or burned by fire; water cannot wet it, not can the wind dry it." -Bhavagad Gita I want to hold you in my eyes, until we both break down and cry; and fall to our knees, living in our created Reality. Back to the Cafe Travel Home MidnyteJade@geocities.com [ Circle Cafe | Perceptions of Truth | Sounds of the Soul | Portfolio | Memories | Detours | Webrings ] [ Sign Guestbook | View Guestbook ] This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page