Johnny C. Gold

Nuggets

"Our own life is an instrument with which we experiment with the truth."
Thich Nhat Hanh

 
"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself,
do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."
– Bruce Lee

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
– Dr. Seuss

"Why do you want to read others´ books when there is the book of yourself?"
– Krishnamurti

“We are the ones we have been waiting for.”
- June Jordon, also attributed to a Hopi Elder

 
"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious.
It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel,
is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed."
- Albert Einstein

" It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God."
- Thomas Jefferson

“Peace is not the absence of conflict,
it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”
- Ronald Reagan

 "Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
- Albert Einstein

 "Science without religion is lame.
Religion without science is blind."
 - Albert Einstein

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
- Albert Einstein

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
- William Butler Yeats

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit
who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
- Albert Einstein

"The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity; of life;
of the marvelous structure of reality..."
- Albert Einstein

The search for truth and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man -
though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least."
- Albert Einstein

“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons.
It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags.
And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore.
Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” 
– Dr. Seuss   

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
- Albert Einstein

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. 
The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
– Dr. Seuss

“When we discover in this world no earth or rock to stand or walk upon
but only shifting sea and sky and wind,
the mature response is not to lament the loss of fixity,
but to learn to sail.”
– James Boyd White

“Truth has no path.  Truth is living and, therefore, changing. 
Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety;
in that state of mind, there is perception. 
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. 
Awareness has not frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.” 
– Bruce Lee

“A martial artist who drills exclusively to a set pattern of combat is losing his freedom. 
He is actually becoming a slave to a choice pattern and feels that the pattern is the real thing.
It leads to stagnation because of the way of combat is never based on personal choice and fancies,
but constantly changes from moment to moment,
and the disappointed combatant will soon find out that his “choice routine” lacks pliability. 
There must be a “being” instead of a “doing” in training. 
One must be free.
Instead of complexity of form, there should be simplicity of expression.” 
– Bruce Lee

“Again, let me remind you Jeet Kune Do is just a name used,
a boat to get one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried on one’s back.”
– Bruce Lee

“All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. 
The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.”
– Bruce Lee

“Be like water making its way through cracks. 
Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object,
and you shall find a way round or through it. 
If nothing within your stays rigid,
outward things will disclose themselves.”
– Bruce Lee

“I maintain that Truth is a pathless land,
and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized;
nor should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any particular path.
You must climb towards the Truth. It cannot be 'stepped down' or organized for you.”
- Krishnamurti

Your mind is like a parachute.  It only works if it’s open.”
- Anthony J. D’Angelo 

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
- Marianne Williamson

“To seek reality requires immense energy;
and if man is not doing that,
he dissipates his energy in ways that create mischief, and therefore society has to control him. 
Now, is it possible to liberate energy in seeking God or truth and,
in the process of discovering what is true,
to be a citizen who understands the fundamental issues of life and whom society cannot destroy?
You see, man is energy, and if man does not seek truth,
this energy becomes destructive;
therefore society controls and shapes the individual, which smothers energy…
And perhaps you have noticed another interesting and very simple fact: energy to do it….
That very energy becomes the means of controlling itself,
so you don’t need outside discipline.
In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. 
The man who is seeking reality spontaneously becomes the right kind of citizen,
which is not according to the pattern of any particular society or government.”
- Krishnamurti from “The Book of Life”