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    Excerpts from your favorite books

    I thought it would be cool to have a place where we can post excerpts from our favorite books. It doesn't matter what subject it is as long as it means something to you.

    I will start with one from a sutra book, The Middle length discourses the Majjhima Nikaya, Discourse 131, "A Single Excellent Night". Not posting this as a religious thing but rather one of presence. It is my favorite.

    “Let not a person revive the past
    Or on the future build his hopes;
    For the past has been left behind
    And the future has not been reached.
    Instead with insight let him see
    Each presently arisen state;
    Let him know that and be sure of it,
    Invincibly, unshakably.
    Today the effort must be made;
    Tomorrow Death may come. who knows?
    No bargain with Mortality
    Can keep him and his hordes away,
    But one who dwells thus ardently,
    Relentlessly, by day, by night --
    It is he, the Peaceful Sage has said,
    Who has had a single excellent night.”
    We are all brothers and sisters in humanity. We are all made from the same dust of stars. We cannot be separated because all life is interconnected.

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    Well this thread bombed pitifully. I thought it would have went well with so many book readers here. I thought maybe others also had favorite quotes from their books. No matter, maybe it's just because I'm the one who started the thread. I will post one last bit of a book. These will be a few quotes from "The Art of Peace", by Morihei Ueshiba, the founder of Aikido. I actually bought this small book a long time ago for my loved one, but I also enjoyed it a bit.

    "Love is like the rays of the sun, shining left, right, up, down, front, back, bathing everything in light".

    "Life is within death, death is within life; you must exist right here, right now!".

    "Always keep your mind bright and clear as vast as the sky, the highest peak, and the deepest ocean, empty of all limiting thoughts".

    "All things are bound together harmoniously; this is the real law of gravity that keeps the universe intact".
    We are all brothers and sisters in humanity. We are all made from the same dust of stars. We cannot be separated because all life is interconnected.

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    Well, this certainly won't bring it back (LOL).


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    No. Wait. I just saw this and I have one. I have posted it before but not here, I don't think.

    The beginning lines from all (14) of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series.

    "The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. "
    WWG1WGA

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    The candleflame and the image of the candleflame caught in the pierglass twisted and righted when he entered the hall and again when he shut the door. He took off his hat and came slowly forward. The floorboards creaked under his boots. In his black suit he stood in the dark glass where the lilies leaned so palely from their waisted cutglass vase. Along the cold hallway behind him hung the portraits of forebears only dimly known to him all framed in glass and dimly lit above the narrow wainscotting. He looked down at the guttered candlestub. He pressed his thumbprint in the warm wax pooled on the oak veneer. Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper thin. That was not sleeping. That was not sleeping.

    It was dark outside and cold and no wind. In the distance a calf bawled. He stood with his hat in his hand. You never combed your hair that way in your life, he said.

    Inside the house there was no sound save the ticking of the mantel clock in the front room. He went out and shut the door.

    Dark and cold and no wind and a thin gray reef beginning along the eastern rim of the world. He walked out on the prairie and stood holding his hat like some supplicant to the darkness over them all and he stood there for a long time.

    From 'All the Pretty Horses' by Cormac McCarthy
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