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"Go without a coat when it's cold; find out what cold is. Go hungry; keep your existence lean.
Wear away the fat, get down to the lean tissue and see what it's all about.
The only time you define your character is when you go without. In times of hardship,
you find out what you're made of and what you're capable of. If you're never tested,
you'll never define your character. "
--Henry Rollins
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"We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in
all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the
arena; they are crucified alone. Embraced, the lovers desperately try to
fuse their insulated ecstasies into a single self-transcendence; in vain. By
its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in
solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies -- all these are private
and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool
information about experiences, but never experiences themselves. From family
to nation, every human group is a society of island universes."
--Aldous Huxley
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A man is born gentle and weak.
At his death he is hard and stiff.
Green plants are tender and filled with sap.
At their death they are withered and dry.
Therefore the stiff and unbending is the disciple of death.
The gentle and yielding is the disciple of life.
Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle.
A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
The soft and weak will overcome.
-Lao-Tzu
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From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.
-- Albert Schweitzer
The seeker must pursue the problem of knowing with a single minded ferocity
and all the attendant frustrations of a mosquito trying to bite on a bar of
iron.
-- Nancy Wilson Ross
If you don't enter the lion's den, you will never capture the lion.
-- Seung Sahn
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Originally posted by Szczepankiewicz
If you don't enter the lion's den, you will never capture the lion.
-- Seung Sahn
Ok, so that was the obvious joke. Sue me.
-T
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