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Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done. Nothing is left undone.

 

The meek shall inherit the earth.

 

How about posting some secular quotes from religious sources. Like the above from the Tao Te Ching, or the second one from the New Test.

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How about a thread on guitars??

 

Start one.

 

I've kind of seen them all. If I have a specific guitar or equipment question I'll ask.

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We are all guitars in the hands of God... How well he plays depends on the quality of the instrument. If you are in tune with the world around you wonderful harmonies can be created... if you are not he plays like sh*T...

 

Edit: If you don't like the word God replace it with whatever works for you...

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lol! :)

 

To exist is to suffer.

 

Ain't it the truth??

 

And I think I am the one that turned the Homz onto the Tao Te Ching....

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geezzz it wasn't meant to be a controversy. I had my copy of the Tao Te Ching and was reading some cool quotes. The reason I said a secular quote was because I really think it's a chance for others who are religious to show their texts can be interesting on many levels.

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Tao Te Ching

 

If you realize all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.

If your not afraid of dieing, there is nothing you can not achieve.

 

Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place.

When you handle the master carpenter's tools chances are you will cut your hand.

 

When taxes are to high, people go hungry.

When the government is to intrusive, people lose their spirit.

Act for the people's benefit.

Trust them; leave them alone.

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Tao Te Ching

 

Men are born soft and supple;

dead, they are stiff and hard.

 

Plants are born tender and pliant;

dead, they are brittle and dry.

 

Thus who ever is stiff and inflexible

is a disciple of death.

 

Who ever is soft and yielding

is a disciple of life.

 

The hard and stiff will be broken.

The soft and supple will prevail.

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I was going to put a bunch of my favorite quotes but, I soon realized I would have to copy/paste like 50 quotes and that didn't seem like fun to me.

 

"I ask for life – for life Divine

Where man's true self may move

In one harmonious cord to twine

The threads of Knowledge and of Love."

 

- H. Sidgwick

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I invite you all to sing the Fifty-third Calypso

 

Oh, a sleeping drunkard

Up in Central Park,

And a lion-hunter

In the jungle dark,

And a Chinese dentist,

And a British queen--

All fit together

In the same machine.

Nice, nice, very nice;

Nice, nice, very nice;

Nice, nice, very nice--

So many different people

In the same device.

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He who go to bed with itchy heiny, wake up with smelly finger.

 

He who go to bed with sex on mind, wake up with solution in hand.

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Tao Te Ching

 

Failure is an opportunity.

If you blame someone else,

there is no end to the blame.

 

Therefore the Master

fulfills her own obligations

and corrects her own mistakes.

She does what she needs to do

and demands nothing of others.

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