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6. Riding the Bull Home. [Riding Home.] – Kuòān Shīyuǎn [Kaku-an] (Late 12th century): Ten Bulls [Ten Ox Herding Pictures] / (Bull [Ox] = True self; Bull [Ox] herder = Self seeking true self) / (5. Taming the Bull… ←… More »
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these… More »
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust (1871 – 1922) (Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay) (Text-to-Speech by Sound of Text, using the engine from Google Translate) More »
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Roses are red, violets are blue, / Sugar is sweet, and so are you. // [The rose is red, the violet’s blue, / The honey’s sweet, and so are you. //] – from Mother Goose More »
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought. – (Sir) Arthur Helps (1813 – 75) More »
A rolling stone gathers no moss. More »
Reason respects differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. – Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 – 1822) More »
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. – Aristotle (384 – 322B.C.) More »
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us. – W. H. [Wystan Hugh] Auden (1907 – 73) More »
The rest is silence. – William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616): Hamlet More »
![IMAGE: Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. [Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. / Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.]](https://www.ok312.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/ai-generated-9017144_640-100x67.jpg)
