2025: Index J

 Jackson, Phil - A00104

"The point is to perform every activity, from playing basketball to taking out the garbage, with precise attention, moment by moment."  (05/01/2023) (02/28/2024)

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James, Henry 

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind, the second is to be kind, and the third is to be kind."  (June 2025)

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James, William 

"Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake."  (12/10/2024) (11/25/2025)

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Jefferies, Richard - A00105

"It is eternity now, I am in the midst of it.  It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it; as the butterfly in the light-laden air.  Nothing has to come; it is now.  Now is eternity; now is the immortal life."  (10/06/2023) (03/26/2024)

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"It is the function of art to renew our perception.  What we are familiar with we cease to see."  (10/21/2023)

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Jewish Mondo

"Rabbi Zusya of Hanipol used to say, "If they ask me in the next world, "Why were you not Moses?  I will know the answer.  But if they ask me, "Why were you not Zusya? I will have nothing to say." (04/11/2025)

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 Ji Aoi Isshi see Isshi, Ji Aoi

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Jianzhi Sengcan see Chien-Chih Seng-Ts'an

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Job

"Wisdom comes from nothingness."  (Job 28:12) (12/04/2024)

John of the Cross (Saint John of the Cross)

"In order to arrive at having pleasure in everything,

"Desire to have pleasure in nothing.

"In order to arrive at having pleasure at possessing everything, 

"Desire to possess nothing.

"In order to arrive at having pleasure at being everything, 

"Desire to be nothing.

"In order to arrive at that wherein thou hast no pleasure,

"Thou must go by a way wherein thou hast no pleasure.

"In order to arrive at that which thou knowest not,

"Thou must go by a way that thou knowest not."  (08/23/2024)

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John the Evangelist (The Gospel of John) - A00106

John 3:8 

"The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and wither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit," (04/26/2023)

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John XXIII (Pope John XXIII) - A00108

"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams.  Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.  Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do."

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Joubert, Joseph - A00109

"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve." 

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Ju-ching

"You can only succeed by just sitting, without the need to make use of burning incense, prostrations, remembrance of Buddha names, repentance ceremonies, reading scriptures of ritual recitations."  (11/28/2025)

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Jung, Carl Gustav - A00110

"The greatest sin is to be unconscious."  (09/20/2025)

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"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transferred."  (March 2025)

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"We must be able to let things happen in the psyche.  For us, this is an art of which most people know nothing.  Consciousness is forever interfering, helping, correcting, and negating, never leaving the psychic processes to grow in peace.  It would be simple enough, if only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things.  (12/22/2024) 

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."  (01/01/2025)

"Your vision will become clear only whe you look into your heart.  Who looks outside, dreams.  Who looks inside, awakens.