{"quotes":[{"text":"Stars do not shine on their friends alone.","author":"Matshona Dhliwayo","tags":["charity","enlightening","enlightenment","greatness","guide","guide-for-living","inner-light","kindness","leadership","love","love","love-and-sayings","mentor","mentoring","sage","shine","shine-your-light","teaching"],"id":20537,"author_id":"Matshona+Dhliwayo"},{"text":"It is as if I have entered what the Tibetans call the Bardo-literally, between-two-existences- a dreamlike hallucination that precedes reincarnation, not necessarily in human form…In case I should need them, instructions for passage through the Bardo are contained in the Tibetan book of the dead- a guide for the living since it teaches that a man’s last thoughts will determine the quality of his reincarnation.","author":"Peter Matthiessen","tags":["guide-for-living","holiness","how-to-live","soul","spirit","spirituality","tibetan-book-of-the-dead","tibetan-buddhism","zen"],"id":272569,"author_id":"Peter+Matthiessen"},{"text":". . . For any worthwhile martial arts skill to be pragmatic, it has to be done live, otherwise it is of limited or no use in actual combat.","author":"Soke Behzad Ahmadi","tags":["battles-of-life","bushido","defence","dojo","guide-for-living","karate","kumite","live-practice","manuale-del-guerriero-della-luce","martial-arts-training","okinawa","quotes","real-fight","shorinjiryu","skill","usefulness","value","warrior","warriors-path"],"id":280614,"author_id":"Soke+Behzad+Ahmadi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}