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@@ -17813,7 +17813,7 @@ for while we exist death is not present,
 and when death is present we no longer exist.
   -- Epicurus
 ~
-Singing and danching are the voice of dharma.  -- Hakuin
+Singing and dancing are the voice of dharma.  -- Hakuin
 ~
 All great truths begin as blasphemies.  -- George Bernard Shaw
 ~
@@ -43854,4 +43854,49 @@ This is what yogis must recognize.  
   -- Longchenpa, from "Finding Rest in the Nature of the Mind: The Trilogy
      of Rest, Volume 1", translated by Padmakara Translation Group, published
      by Shambhala Publications
+~
+The purpose of a knife is much like the purpose of the brain, and that is to
+stop being used.  Just as the brain should do some computation and then desist
+from functioning for a while to rest and relax, so too should one stop using a
+knife as soon as the purpose for which the knife was picked up is achieved.
+If it seems like it's fun to play with a knife or if one feels that the knife
+is an extension of one's penis, then that is not a very good reason to pick up
+a knife; one should probably put the knife right back down in those degenerate
+(in the mathematical sense) cases.  #WhatILearnedFromTheBoyScouts
+  -- fred t. hamster
+~
+Full of trust you left home,
+and soon learned to walk the Path--
+making yourself a friend to everyone
+and making everyone a friend.
+
+When the whole world is your friend,
+fear will find no place to call home.
+
+And when you make the mind your friend,
+you'll know what trust 
+really means.
+
+Listen.
+
+I have followed this Path of friendship to its end.
+And I can say with absolute certainty--
+it will lead you home.
+
+  -- from "The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns",
+     by Matty Weingast
+~
+If we are honest with ourselves, we know from our own experience that the more
+we try to find solutions to our problems through thinking about them, the more
+we start going around in circles, sometimes interminably.  Buddhism counsels
+us to resist being abused by our conflicting emotions and to let go of
+excessive thinking.  Emotions can be expressed in an unhealthy, self-
+destructive manner or in a healthy and constructive fashion.  Similarly, we
+can think in a self-destructive, confused way, which reinforces our negative
+habits, or we can think in a constructive way.  Buddhism emphasizes that
+overindulgence in conflicting emotions and distorted forms of thinking only
+reinforces our old habits, which solidifies our karmic tendencies even
+further.
+  -- Traleg Kyabgon, from "Mind at Ease: Self-Liberation through Mahamudra
+      Meditation", published by Shambhala Publications