"I gave them hope, and so turned away their eyes from death"

-- Aeschylus

“A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.”
“Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human”
“Why stay on the earth except to grow.”
“Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow.”
“I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which was before the subject of contemplation, is gradually produced, and does itself actually exist in the mind.”
“Independent of harmony rules, any color 'goes' or 'works' with any other color, presupposing that their quantities are appropriate.”
“If you can't win your race, make sure the guy ahead of you breaks the record.”
“The lake and the mountains have become my landscape, my real world.”

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