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Month: January 2007

  • importance

    “No human thing is of serious importance.”

    – Plato

  • do what we must

    “We do what we must, and call it by the best names.”

    – Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • the individual stands at a crossroad

    … 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

  • shake off the dust of human ambition

    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)