Swallows fly in the sky,
The water reflects their image.
The swallows leave no traces,
Nor does the water retain their image.
                          --Concept of Non-Attachment
                          --From the book Zen Philosophy
                                          Zen Practice.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is
what it is.
                          --Jean-Paul Sartre

I am a part of all that I have met.
                          --Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Everything flows; nothing remains.
                          --Herakleitos

Thinking is more interesting than knowing but
less interesting than looking.
                          --Goethe

Even though you know a thousand things, ask
the man who knows one.
                          --Turkish Proverb


Wisdom is often times nearer when we stoop,
than when we soar.
                          --William Wordsworth

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men
of old; seek what they sought.
                          --Basho

Great spirits have always encountered violent
opposition from mediocre minds.
                          --Albert Einstein

Great Men cling to the truth as if their hearts
had teeth.
                          --Louis Danz

There's much to be said for challenging fate
instead of ducking behind it.
                          --Diana Trilling

The first problem for all of us, men and women,
is not to learn but to unlearn.
                          --Gloria Steinem

A person who practices religion is like a person
who climbs a mountain. The many different methods
are the many different ways one may climb the
mountain. And many people follow different religions
and climb different ways. But when the top of the
mountain is reached there is no longer different
roads, no longer different paths. Only there! The
top is there.
                          --from the book Zen Philosophy
                                          Zen Practice.
                            written by Thich Thien-An

Beavis, I've seen the top of the mountain.
And it is GOOD!
                          --Butthead

If you think there is a solution, you're
part of the problem.
                          --George Carlin

We promise according to our hopes and perform
according to our FEARS!!
                          --La Rochefoucaulo

We know not the true value of out moments until
they have undergone the test of memory.
                          --Georges Duhamel

Do or do not. There is no try.
                          --Yoda

Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.
                          --Occam's Razor

Its vain to do with more what can be done with less.
                          --Occam

Everything should be made as simple as possible....
but not simpler.
                          --Albert Einstein