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A modern koan

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Imagine a massless particle.

– Koan of modern physics

The color of wind

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What is the color of wind?

– Zen koan

Keep the balance true

And do not change.
Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and keep the balance true.

– Rilke

Friendship is…

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Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

– Aristotle

The secret of human freedom

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The secret of human freedom is to act well,
without attachment to the results.

– From the Bhagavad Gita

Become a child

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child.

– Dogen

The rapture of being alive

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life… I think that what we’re really seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our innermost being and reality, so that we can actually feel the rapture of being alive.

– Joseph Campbell

Beauty is not caused

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Beauty is not caused, – it is;
Chase it and it ceases,
Chase it not and it abides…

– Emily Dickinson

Only two mistakes

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth:

  1. Not going all the way, and
  2. Not starting.

-Buddha