Zen Thought of the Day

[Szczepankiewicz]

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
--CS Lewis

[Szczepankiewicz]

"Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account. "

-- Benjamin Franklin

[Szczepankiewicz]

Arkansas Zen?

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
-- William Shakespeare

[Szczepankiewicz]

So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs.
-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

[crazyjoe380]

can someone please shut the fuc.k already with the thought of the day...thank you

[Lithp]

Admitting you have a problem is half the battle.

[Szczepankiewicz]

Economic Zen

Stein's Law: "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."
-- Herb Stein

[Szczepankiewicz]

The way is empty yet use will not drain it.
-- Lao-tzu

[Szczepankiewicz]

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Szczepankiewicz]

"One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain. "

--Thomas Sowell

[Szczepankiewicz]

The first and wisest of
them all professed
to know this only, that
he nothing knew.
-- John Milton

Even when one asserts that it is something, one misses it altogether.
-- Nan-yueh

[Szczepankiewicz]

I do not pretend to understand the universe.
It's a great deal bigger than I am.
-- Tom Stoppard

[mushinmaster]

CRAZYJOE: I'm sorry I've been slackin' on my thoughts, but here's one for ya

I don't know whether
I was then a man dreaming
I was a butterfly, or whether
I am now a butterly dreaming
I am a man.

Cheng Tze

[Szczepankiewicz]

There's nothing that keeps its youth,
So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

[crazyjoe380]

mine your own buisness...you live longer
-ganster capone