2025: Index F

Ferrucci, Piero

"Eliminate something superfluous from your life.

"Break a habit.

"Do something that makes you feel insecure.

"Carry out an action with complete attention 

    and intensity, as if it were you last." (12/27/2024)

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Feuerstein, Georg

"Boredom is a sign that you're detached from your own bodily experience and aren't living in the present moment."  (12/23/2022)

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Fields, Rick

"People who cling to the experience of spirituality are said to have "the stink of enlightenment."  It's necessary to come back and work in the world."  [Bernie Glassman and Rick Fields] (12/17/2025)

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Fierstein, Harvey

"Never be bullied into silence.  Never allow yourself to be made a victim.  Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."  (December 2025)

Firdausi

"If on earth there be 

a Paradise of Bliss,

It is this,

It is this, 

It is this. (05/31/2024)

Fischer, Norman - A00091

"Time is constantly passing.  If you really consider this fact, you will be simultaneously amazed and terrified.  Time is passing, even for tiles, walls, and pebbles.  This means that every moment dies to itself. As soon as it arises, it is gone.  You cannot find any duration.  Arising and passing away are simultaneous.  That is why there is no seeing nor hearing. That is why we are both sentient beings and insentient beings."  (09/01/2022)

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott 

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function."  (07/10/2024)

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The Flower Garland Sutra

"All things have neither a beginning nor an end."  (12/13/2025)

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Fox, Matthew 

"Big-heartedness is the most essential virtue on the spiritual journey."  (12/10/2022)

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Foyan

"Actually, there is no real teaching at all for you to chew on.  By not believing in yourself, you pick up your baggage and go around to other people's houses looking for Zen, looking for Tao, looking for mysteries, looking for awakenings, looking for Buddhas, looking for masters, looking for teachers.  You think this is searching for the ultimate and you make this into your religion.  But this is like running blindly.  The more you run, the further away you are.  You just tire yourself, to what benefit in the end?"  (06/10/2025)

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Francis de Sales (Saint Francis de Sales) - A00093

"Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly."  (09/17/2022)

Franck, Frederick - A00066

"To stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience."  (02/17/2022)

Frankl, Victor - A00045

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

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Fromm, Erich - A00046

"Birth is not an act; it is a process.  The aim of life is to be fully born, though it is a tragedy that most of us die before we are born.  To live is to be born every minute.  Death occurs when birth stops." (08/06/2025)

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"The aim of Zen is enlightenment; the immediate, unreflected grasp of reality without affective contamination and intellectualization, the realization of myself to the universe."  (11/04/2025)

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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning." (12/29/2022)

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"The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning.  Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers."  (06/13/2024)

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"Well-being means to be fully born to become what one potentially is; it means to have the full capacity for joy and sadness or, to put it still differently, to awake from the half-slumber the average man lives in and be fully awake."  (09/18/2025)

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Fulghum, Robert - A00047

"To look this way is to see.  To see is to have vision.  To have vision is to understand. To understand is to know.  To know is to become.  To become is to live fully.  To live fully is to matter. And to matter is to become light.  And to become light is to be loved.  And to be loved is to burn. And to burn is to exist.  Off and on.  (05/29/2023)

R. Buckminster Fuller

"Everything you learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.  For example, there are no solids in the universe; not even the suggestion of a solid.  There are no absolute continuums.  There are no surfaces.  There are no straight lines." (06/28/2024)