Simple Life ...

 "I fear nothing, so I will remember myself."
                                        Carlos Castaneda

 "Life is too important to be taken seriously."
                                        Oscar Wilde

 "Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything."
                                        Morihei Ueshiba

 "Wisdom without kindness and knowladge without sobriety are useless."
                                        Carlos Castaneda

 "Do not regard as valuable anything that can be taken away."
                                        Seneca (circa 4 B.C.E.-65)

 "This is my simple religion. 
    There is no need for temples;
    no need for complicated philosophy. 
    Our own brain, our own heart is the temple; 
    the philosophy is kindness."
                       Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet

 "I am old.
    Nothing interests me now.
    Moreover
    I am not very intelligent
    and my ideas
    have travelled no further
    than my feet.

    You ask me:
    What is the greatest happiness on earth?
    Two things:
    changing my mind
    as I change a penny for a shilling;
    and
    listening to the sound
    of a young girl
    singing down the road
    after she has asked me the way."
                             Christopher Logue

 
 "Time goes as fast as you do."
                             R (a friend)

 "There are 4 kinds of knowledge: 
    the known, the unknown, the unknowable,
    and the "who gives a shit to know about it"                          
                                        Don Juan Matus             

 "Make me one with everything", the Buddha monk said to the hot-dog vendor
    who was hawking food near the temple.
    The vendor made a frank with mustard, ketchup, relish and onions. The monk took 
    it and handed over a twenty-dollar bill. The vendor stashed the cash in his apron 
    and turned his attention to the next customer.
    "But where's my change?" the monk inquired.
    "Change must come from within, my friend", said the vendor.
                                        apparently a famous joke,
                                        I took it from Rob Brezsny "Secrets of Pronoia"