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Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Found a few quotes about laughter ...

Here's one I like -

"Laughter is an important part of a good relationship. It's an immense achievement when you can move from your thinking that your partner is merely an idiot to thinking that they are that wonderfully complex thing called a loveable idiot. And often that means having a little bit of a sense of humour about their flaws."

~ Alain de Botton

:)
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“I’m for mystery, not interpretive answers. The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer, but they think they have. So they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.”

~ Ken Kesey

Many similar quotes here -

41 Quotes On Mystery - John Paul Caponigro – Digital Photography Workshops, DVDs, eBooks

Including one by Einstein I kinda like :)
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it. Life is a beauty, admire it. Life is a dream, realize it. Life is a challenge, meet it. Life is a duty, complete it. Life is a game, play it. Life is a promise, fulfill it. Life is sorrow, overcome it. Life is a song, sing it. Life is a struggle, accept it. Life is a tragedy, confront it. Life is an adventure, dare it. Life is luck, make it. Life is life, fight for it.”

~ Anon
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Great idea for anew thread!

A single thread of excerpts from ALL the books I have enjoyed over the journey ...

Off the top of my head -

"Awakening the Buddha Within"

"Pema Chodron's books - plus this wonderful page -

Articles

Sharon Salzberg page

"Soul Food" - few people have heard of it - pity!

Also few have heard of "365 Wisdom Pills"

"Siddhartha's Brain"

For even more books -

Refining Character as Elders | Features | Spirituality & Practice

"Full Catastrophe Living" - all 600 pages! - from thread?

"The Untethered Soul"

"The Lost Art of Compassion" - where did I put those quotes from Lorne Ladner?

"The Power of Now"

"Happiness" by Matthieu Ricard plus searches for world's happiest man!

"Happy For No Reason"

"Mastery of Love"

Leunig's poems - from this thread? -

Leunig's poems!

"The Art of Happiness"

That book of writings from Thich Nhat Hanh -

Plus quite a few sites - for example -

http://www.evelynlim.com/how-to-love-7-quotes-thich-nhat-hanh/

Post some to the quotes thread? Why not!

Also links to good reads and other great quotes sites!

Could be massive - hope it helps people ...
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time ― proof that humans can work magic.”

~ Carl Sagan

50 Carl Sagan Quotes about the Cosmos, Love and Earth

Loved his TV series!
 
Geoff-Allen

Geoff-Allen

Resident megalomaniac
Interesting replies to the humour thread - mentions DeBono -

Serious Creativity will seem a contradiction in terms for many people. Everyone knows that creativity has to be fun, lively, and crazy - so how can we have serious creativity?

The de Bono Group - Welcome
 
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