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May 1980The satiated man and the hungry one do not see the same thing when they look upon a loaf of bread.
Jalaluddin Rumi
April 1980Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know.
Socrates
March 1980The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
February 1980One must have apocalypse in one eye and the millennium in the other, and as you look out through that double vision, the third eye develops and sees the resolution of tragedy and conflict and the rest of it.
William Irwin Thompson
January 1980One’s own self is well hidden from one’s own self: of all mines of treasure, one’s own is the last to be dug up.
Nietzsche
December 1979Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is Power.
Gregory Corso, Power
October 1979Sometimes it seems to me that in this absurdly random life there is some inherent justice in the outcome of personal relationships. In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.
Sheldon Kopp, If You Meet The Buddha on the Road, Kill Him!
September 1979As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.
Suzuki Roshi, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
August 1979The ancients said: “The hanged man cannot cut himself down.” But in due time Nature is stronger than all his ropes and bonds. It was always so. Where is the reason to be discouraged?
Chuang Tzu
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