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“Sabu is bleeding, she does not have this ox.

This lion is hungry, he does not have this ox.

This wagon is heavy, it does not have this ox.

God is happy, Sabu.  He plays with us.”

-- Spoken by Farah to the Baroness Blixen, in Out of Africa

 

“All things in moderation”  

[ A better, modern version: “All Healthy things in moderation” ]

-- Aristotle

 

“Simple Gifts”

'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free

'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,

And when we find ourselves in the place just right,

'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.

When true simplicity is gained,

To bow and to bend we shan't be ashamed,

To turn, turn will be our delight,

Till by turning, turning we come 'round right.

-- Elder Joseph of the Shakers in New England

 

“Miraculous power and marvelous activity,

Drawing water and chopping wood.

-- Pangyun, a lay Zen practitioner, eighth century C.E.

 

“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

-- a time to be born, and a time to die;

-- a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

-- a time to kill, and a time to heal;

-- a time to break down, and a time to build up;

-- a time to weep, and a time to laugh;

-- a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

--  a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;

-- a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;    

-- a time to get, and a time to lose;
-- a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

-- a time to rend, and a time to sew;
-- a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

-- a time to love, and a time to hate;

-- a time of war, and a time of peace.”

-- Ecclesiastes 3, King James Version

J.X. Mason at ContinuingCreation.org

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Life's Purpose & Meaning from Nature & Science

Favorite Quotations #6 thru #10

“The world is so full of a number of things,
I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings”
-- Robert Louis Stevenson, A Child’s Garden of Verses

“Wherever You Go, There You Are.”
-- Jon Kabat-Zinn, Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“Just want to be here!”
-- Jay Leno

“Ai, ai, ai, ai,
Canta y no llores
Porque cantando se alegran,
Cielito lindo, los corazones”
-- from the song Cielto Lindo:
(“Sing and don’t cry; Because singing gladdens, Pretty little heaven, the hearts”)

“Chile, the players change,
But the game remains the same!”
-- from the movie, "Big Momma’s House"

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-- Finding Life's Purpose & Meaning
-- in Nature, Science, & History
-- by J.X. Mason