Wed 24 Jan 2007
importance
Posted by Rae under quote
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“No human thing is of serious importance.”
- Plato
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Thu 11 Jan 2007
do what we must
Posted by Rae under poetry, quote
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“We do what we must, and call it by the best names.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wed 3 Jan 2007
the individual stands at a crossroad
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… the individual today stands at a crossroad, faced with the choice of whether to pursue the new technology and the endless multiplication of material goods, or to seek out a way that will lead to spiritual responsibility …
- Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986
Mon 1 Jan 2007
shake off the dust of human ambition
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To shake off the dust of human ambition
I sit on moss in Zen robes of stillness,
While through the window,
In the setting sun of late autumn,
Falling leaves whirl and drop to the stone dais.
- Tesshu Tokusai (1366)
