The Joyful Curmudgeon


Greetings,

Quotes across all geographies, across all times, have always been enjoyable reading. This is just a small collection of some favorites, and there could no doubt be many, many more.  Our kind may inhabit every sort of body, speak every variety of language, live in every nook and cranny across this spinning ball of dust, but we are all really very much the same monkey-mind, cousins of the same puddle, so to speak. Just playing out different facets of the crest-jewel of human consciousness.

So grab yourself a cigar, pour a shot or two of your favorite elixir, and enjoy the wisdom of the ages. Each section below has up to one hundred quotes. Open up a set, click on the first graphic, and then stroll through the rest along the bottom. Click on the "Escape" button to get back to the main page.

Best wishes,

Michael





The Stillness Before Time

Reflections From a Fellow Sojourner

 

 

Website
 
The Stillness Before Time
Reflections From a Fellow Sojourner
https://thestillnessbeforetime.com/

 

There is really only one Way.

It is without division or boundary.

It is without name or theology.

Awareness is its scripture.

Here now, its venue.

You, its witness.

Your life, the journey.

 
A PDF is available at:
https://thestillnessbeforetime.com/thestillnessbeforetime.pdf

 

 

One Through Thirty

 

One * 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

 

18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 * Thirty

 

 

Essays

 

Of the Human Journey

 

Got God?

 

Ten Reflections

 

 

Blog and PDF

 

Blog * PDF

 

 

Other Resources

 

Books * Movies * Links * Blogs

 

 

Main Blogs & PDF's

 

(All blogs and PDF's subject to change, so stay tuned)

 

The Stillness Before Time

Reflections From a Fellow Sojourner

Blog * PDF

 

The Ponderings of Yaj Ekim

Blog * PDF

 

Breadcrumbs 2015

Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time

Blog * PDF

 

Breadcrumbs 2018

Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time

Blog * PDF

 

Breadcrumbs 2019

Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time

Blog * PDF

 

Breadcrumbs 2020

Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time

Blog * PDF

 

Breadcrumbs 2021

Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time

Blog * PDF

 

Breadcrumbs 2022

Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time

Blog * PDF

 

Breadcrumbs 2023 & Beyond

Bits and Pieces From a Dream of Time

Blog * PDF

 

The Return to Wonder

Field Notes From the Unknown

(Major edit underway -- Edited copy colored green and blue )

Blog * PDF

 

 

Blogs & PDF's of Other Works

 

Michael's Rabbit Hole

A Selection of Breadcrumbs & Other Aphorisms

Blog * PDF

 

The Call of the Eternal

A Conversation With My Self

Blog * PDF

 

Imagination: The Great Usurper

Blog * PDF

 

Lost in Translation

The Human Paradigm's Linguistic Muddle

Blog * PDF

 

The Gordian Knot of Ethical Thinking

Blog * PDF

 

Jesus ... on Prophets
What Any Seer Likely Faces Returning to the Cave of Origin
Blog * PDF

 

Mystery, Mystery & More Mystery

Blog * PDF

 

Imagination, Imagination & More Imagination

Blog * PDF

 

Doubt, Doubt & More Doubt

Blog * PDF

 

Science, Science & More Science

Blog * PDF

 

History, History & More History

Blog * PDF

 

Patterns, Patterns & More Patterns

Blog * PDF

 

Reincarnation, Reincarnation & More Reincarnation

Blog * PDF

 

Standouts From the Return to Wonder Edit

Selections From the First Sixteen Chapters

Blog * PDF

 

Of the Human Journey

Along with Got God? And Ten Reflections

Blog * PDF

 

To Be or Not to Be

Blog * PDF

 

The Mystery of the Mystery

Blog * PDF

 

Who Was the First?

Blog * PDF

 

The Real is Discovering

Blog * PDF

 

59 Moments to The Way It Is (And Is Not)

The Scribe's Guide to the Great Whatthe#$*!?

Blog * PDF

 

Definitions

An Incomplete Selection 0f Contemplative Definitions

Blog * PDF

 

Conversations

A Variety of Letters, Emails, Texts, & Sundry Odd 'n Ends

Blog * PDF

 

Titles, Titles & More Titles

Blog * PDF

 

Even More

Blog * PDF

 

Sketches of the Once Upon a Time

A Few Epiphanies and Other Hallmark Moments

Blog * PDF

 

The Corollaries of Yaj Ekim

Blog * PDF

 

Possible Last Words & Epitaphs

Blog * PDF

 

The Standard Ripostes

The Scribe's Go-to Responses to This and That in the Day-To-Day

Blog * PDF

 

My (Not Quite) Haiku

Blog * PDF

 

Jester Amok

Blog * Facebook * Facebook (Original)

 

Uncle Sam Says

Blog * Facebook

 

Once Upon a Christmas

Blog * PDF

 

Ditties for the Bluegrass Pyre

Blog * PDF

 

A Short List of Books for the Up and Coming

Some Written Works That May Help Get the Young up to Speed

Blog * PDF

 

Spam Responses (a.k.a., WTF Is This Shit!?)

Blog * PDF

 

 

A Collection of Miscellaneous Creations

 

Final Exit and Related Links

 

COVID-19 Information Links

 

The Blind Men and the Elephant

 

Of A Philosophical Nature

 

The Four Agreements

 

The Joyful Curmudgeon

 

12 Rules You Can Live By

 

Quotes, Quotes & More Quotes

 

Fichier Circulaire de Michael

 

How to Work in Any Environment

 

50 Rules Kids Won't Learn in School

 

Election 2016: The Rise (and Fall?) of Donald Trump

 

Michael's Little Warehouse of All Things Amusing, Absurd & Profound

 

 

Breadcrumbs: The Original Blog

 

Preface

 

Leftovers

 

Soundbites

 

Breadcrumbs

 

The Standard Ripostes

 

The Corollaries of Yaj Ekim

 

Possible Last Words & Epitaphs

 

Spam Responses (a.k.a., WTF Is This Shit!?)

 

A Short List of Books for the Up and Coming

 

59 Moments to The Way It Is (And Is Not)

 

Sketches of the Once Upon a Time

 

The Real is Discovering Series

 

Quotes Worth Pondering

 

Of the Human Journey

 

Ten Reflections

 

Got God?

 

Books

 

Movies

 

Links

 

Photo Gallery

 

Michael J. Holshouser: Life Resume

 

 

Other Blogs and PDF's by Michael

 

Other Blogs and PDF's by Michael

 

 

Facebook

 

Michael Holshouser

 

Fichier Circulaire de Michael
(Michael's Circular File)

 

Yaj Ekim

 

 

Twitter

 

@YajEkim

 

 

Sivana East

 

Michael Holshouser

 

 

Eight Translations of the Ashtavakra Gita
 
The Heart of Awareness (Byrom)
 
Ashtavakra Gita (Marshall)
 
Bitten by the Black Snake (Schoch)
 
Ashtavakra Gita (Richards)
 
A Duet of One (Balsekar)
 
Astavakra Samhita (Wood)
 
Ashtavakra Gita (Shastri)

Ashtavakra Gita (Vedic Scriptures)
 
 
PDF's of Eight Translations of the Ashtavakra Gita
 
The Heart of Awareness (Byrom)
 
Ashtavakra Gita (Marshall)
 
Bitten by the Black Snake (Schoch)
 
Ashtavakra Gita (Richards)
 
A Duet of One (Balsekar)
 
Astavakra Samhita (Wood)
 
Ashtavakra Gita (Shastri)
 
Ashtavakra Gita (Vedic Scriptures)
 
 
Ashtavakra Gita: I Am Shiva
 
Ashtavakra Gita: I Am Shiva
 
 
PDF's of Ashtavakra Gita: I Am Shiva
 
Ashtavakra Gita: I Am Shiva
 
I Am Shiva Comparison Chart
 
 
Three Translations of the Avadhuta Gita
 
Avadhuta Gita: Song of the Ever-Free (Marshall)
 
Song of the Avadhut (Abhayananda)
 
Avadhut Gita (Shastri)
 
 
PDF's of Three Translations of the Avadhuta Gita
 
Avadhuta Gita: Song of the Ever-Free (Marshall)
 
Song of the Avadhut (Abhayananda)
 
Avadhut Gita (Shastri)
 
 
Translations of Other Ancient Writings
 
Ashtavakra Gita: I Am Shiva
 
Tao Te Ching: Verse One
 
Tao Te Ching (Marshall)
 
Bhagavad Gita (Marshall)
 
Yoga Sutras (Marshall)
 
Dhammapada (Marshall)
 
Ecclesiastes (Marshall)
 
Atma Bodha (Chinmayananda)
 
The Essence of the Ribhu Gitaj (Aiyer)
 
Yoga Vasishta Sara (Ramasramam)
 
Crest-Jewel of Discrimination (Madhavananda)
 
Mandukya Upanishad & Mandukya Karika of Gaudapada (Panoli)
 
Gaudapada: Advaita Vedanta's First Philosopher (Jones)
 
 
Translations of Ancient Writings by Bart Marshall
 
Avadhuta Gita: Song of the Ever-Free
 
Ashtavakra Gita
 
Tao Te Ching
 
Bhagavad Gita
 
Yoga Sutras
 
Dhammapada
 
Ecclesiastes
 
 
Writings by Bart Marshall
 
Verses Regarding True Nature
 
One Hundred Two Haiku