RE: Meaningful ideas and quotes
July 18, 2020 at 10:55 am
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2020 at 11:00 am by Porcupine.)
(July 18, 2020 at 10:53 am)Eleven Wrote:
Very true. It's one of those aphorisms that is easy to understand in principle but can take a lifetime to master in practice.
"If a person is stupid, we excuse him by saying that he cannot help it; but if we attempted to excuse in precisely the same way the person who is bad, we [w]ould be laughed at." - Schopenhauer
"Zen … does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes." - Alan Watts