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    In the blue darkening sky
    The moon paints a pine tree.

    - Ransetsu (1653-1707)
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    Tao te Ching
    chapter Seventy-eight

    Under heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water.
    Yet for attacking the solid and strong, nothing is better;
    It has no equal.
    The weak can overcome the strong;
    The supple can overcome the stiff.
    Under heaven everyone knows this,
    Yet no one puts it into practice.
    Therefore the sage says:
    He who takes upon himself the humiliation of the people is fit to rule them.
    He who takes upon himself the country's disasters deserves to be king of the universe.
    The truth often sounds paradoxical.

    https://terebess.hu/english/tao/gia.html#Kap78
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    This is the time to be slow,
    Lie low to the wall
    Until the bitter weather passes.

    Try, as best you can, not to let
    The wire brush of doubt
    Scrape from your heart
    All sense of yourself
    And your hesitant light.

    If you remain generous,
    Time will come good;
    And you will find your feet
    Again on fresh pastures of promise,
    Where the air will be kind
    And blushed with beginning.
    ~John O’Donohue

    New day...
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    Under the trees welcoming spring,
    Things take care of themselves;
    After all,
    The appearance of a monk
    Is strange to ordinary people.
    The dharma of the new year
    Is not outside the mind;
    Filling the eye,
    There are green, green
    Mountains in every direction.

    - Gesshu Soko (1618-1696)
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    I entered the mountains
    And learned to be dumb.
    Usually, I can’t even open my mouth.
    I don’t point out the mistakes of others;
    My own faults are what I’m after
    The tea is done; the stove is red.
    The moon is up; the windows are white.
    Who’s learned to see through this perishable world?
    Fishing from a rock,
    Yen-ling sat alone

    - Stonehouse
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    Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.
    The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can.
    Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt.
    Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play.
    Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by.
    They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.

    -Darwi Odrade
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    I bend but do not break.
    I’ve been lost, but I’m not a loser.
    I’m a wreck, but I’m not totaled.
    I’m fractured but not broken.
    I’ve failed, but I’m not a failure.
    I’ve fallen hard but can get up again.
    I’m isolated, but still I’m free.

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    Ultimately all things are known because you want to believe you know.
    - Zensunni koan
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    I smile at spring mountains
    And frown at frozen lakes:
    This? Not this?
    Each little thing is the entire truth.
    Totsu!

    - Gako (1737-1805)
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    “A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.”

    ― Ghandi
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    @rookie54 said
    “A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.”

    ― Ghandi
    I would say that lighting other candles can shorten the life of the first candle. The heat generated by the second candle could melt a small portion of wax off the first.
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    I died from minerality and became vegetable;
    And From vegetativeness I died and became animal.
    I died from animality and became man.
    Then why fear disappearance through death?
    Next time I shall die
    Bringing forth wings and feathers like angels;
    After that, soaring higher than angels -
    What you cannot imagine,

    I shall be that.

    ~ Rumi
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    @eladar said
    I would say that lighting other candles can shorten the life of the first candle. The heat generated by the second candle could melt a small portion of wax off the first.
    The first candle lights the wick of the second candle. No extra heat is generated in the procedure. (By the time the flame meets the wax of the second candle the first candle has already been retracted).

    Ghost.
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    We speak of falsehood as completely false
    And of truth as completely true;
    But outside of truth there is no falsehood
    And outside of falsehood, no special truth.
    How can those who practice the Way
    Diligently search for the truth?
    If we examine the depths of our own hearts,
    There is delusion, and there is truth.

    - Ryokan (1758-1831)
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    If you attain the truth within your own mind,
    then even the senseless chitchat in the streets and markets are like the Dharma speech of a great teacher,
    and even a chirping bird or the wail of an animal express truth.
    For this very reason, when Zen Master Pao-chi heard the crying of bitter mourning,
    he awakened to his own mind and danced joyfully.
    And Zen Master Pao-shou was suddenly enlightened to his true nature by the sight of a street fight!

    - So Sahn (1520-1604)
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