Henry Blofeld Cricket Quotes & Sayings

The chief tragic event of the old man's life, so far as I could judge, was his mishap with a certain goose, which lived and died some twenty or forty years ago: a goose of most promising figure, but which, at table, proved so inveterately tough, that the carving-knife would make no impression on its carcase, and it could only be divided with an axe and handsaw. — Anonymous

This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained in this, the other shore is contained in this shore. You need not go anywhere. If you can be joyous, flowing, alive, sensitive, orgasmic, this very shore immediately is transformed into the other shore ... this very world the paradise, this very body the Buddha. — Osho

I'm fast becoming the one who leaves things behind, — Nick Flynn

The Buddhist mindset seeks to eliminate the self. That is to say, what we want to experience is life, not self. When there's less self and more life, we're very content, and when there's more self and less life we're quite unhappy. — Frederick Lenz

Sometimes the idea of living as a hermit appeals to all of us. No demands, no needs, no pain, no disappointments. But that is because we have been hurt, are worn out. — John Eldredge

Concentration is the doorway through which the meditative state becomes available. — Gudjon Bergmann

A lot of education is like teaching marching; I try to make it more like dancing. — Peter Schjeldahl

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

From The Twelve Enlightenments
Observe your own body. It breathes. You breathe when you are asleep, when you are no longer conscious of your own ideas of self-identity. Who, then, is breathing? The collection of information that you mistakenly think it's you is not the main protagonist in this drama called the breath. In fact, you are not breathing; breath is naturally happening to you. You can purposely end your own life, but you cannot purposely keep your own life going. The expression, "My life" is actually an oxymoron, a result of ignorance and mistaken assumption. You don't posses life; life expresses itself through you. Your body is a flower that life let bloom, a phenomenon created by life. — Ilchi Lee

The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he's dying don't give him pity for others. — Tennessee Williams

You should prize this pain of yours. This is what will make you human all the way through. Nothing less will do that. — Diana Abu-Jaber

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing; — Rudyard Kipling