A história Sufi do “estúpido idiota”
There is an old Sufi story about a philosopher who made an appointment to debate with Nasrudin, a Sufi wisdom teacher. When the philosopher…
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what we ENJOY = abundance
“Not what we have…but what we ENJOY…constitutes our abundance.” ~ John Petit-Senn
The Wise Donkey
Via Sri Aurobindo Society. One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried…
as in “No religion higher than the truth”
“Holiness, purity and charity are not the exclusive possessions of any church in the world. Every system has produced men and women of the…
O violinista invisível do Washington Post
Da coluna do domingo de Martha Medeiros n’O Globo: Aconteceu em janeiro. O jornal Washington Post convidou um dos maiores violinistas do mundo, Joshua…
Top 3 das top 10 do Steve Jobs
Quem listou foi o Ririan Project, mas as “sabedorias” são de Steve Jobs. Das 10 (muito boas) que ele listou, minhas três preferidas: 3….
Vivekananda e o conhecimento do Absoluto
“Existem dois processos para conhecer o Absoluto: um é o positivo, e o outro, o negativo. O processo positivo é aquele em que todo…
“Flexible and flowing” (Tao)
“Whatever is flexible and flowing will tend to grow, whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die.” ~ Tao Te Ching
“Buddhas and sentient beings”
“Those who have great realization of delusion are buddhas; those who are great deluded about realization are sentient beings.” ~ Dogen (Soto Zen)
The end and the butterfly (Lao Tse)
“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.” ~ Lao Tzu
Onde estão as oportunidades
“Opportunity is often missed because we are broadcasting when we should be tuning in.” ~ (anônimo)
Outside & Inside (the mistery)
“Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery — the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets — is this: that for…
Darkness and God, the meeting (the fable)
There is an old fable…. Darkness approached God and said, “Enough is enough! Your sun goes on haunting me, chasing me. I can never…
Vivekananda on ‘Fearlessness’
“The moment you fear, you are nobody. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that…
The Tao of the the best man
“The best of man is like water, Which benefits all things, and does not contend with them, Which flows in places that others disdain,…
“Challenged to change”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” ~ Victor Frankl
O que move um movimento
“Tools, then, not ideology, spurred the spread of the Creative Commons movement, to the extent that the Rio summit attracted delegations from Australia, China,…
Thinking vs. Behavior
“If you change your thinking, Nando, but not your behavior, you haven’t really changed your thinking.” ~ The Universe
“Os homens viajam” (Sto. Agostinho)
“Os homens viajam para se maravilharem com a altura das montanhas as ondas imensas do mar os longos cursos dos rios o vasto âmbito…
Vivekananda on freedom
“Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are …but unless you realize the Truth,…