The Love of Wisdom

2012-02-04T12:48:00.001-08:00

I'm finding the power and beauty of Buddhism is not in its central tenet of being detached from the world and thus free (though I could be wrong on this one), but in non-reaction to the world and life as it transpires around you. The detachment is in those parts of ourselves that react—not from those that feel or think.

2012-02-04T12:33:00.000-08:00

"Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like); fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters shape the log of wood; wise people fashion themselves." Buddhism; Dhammapada, verse 80.

2012-02-03T08:11:00.000-08:00

“If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is dark and negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.” – Taoism; Lao Tzu (Founder of Taoism).

2012-02-03T08:08:00.001-08:00

"Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city." ESV ~ Judaism & Christianity; Proverbs 16:32

2012-01-31T20:49:00.001-08:00

‎"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." - Thomas Jefferson

2012-01-27T07:58:00.001-08:00

We should gather all the good and true principles in the world and treasure them up, or we shall not come out true Mormons.

Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 316 from WikiQuote