What is a Quafaie?


Quafaie (pronounced: kwa FAY) are fantasy creatures that exist in the fantasy writing of Hugh Kemeny, and are created by him. They are primarily in Hugh Kemeny’s Black Phoenix short stories...

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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen:

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
- Krishnamurti

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Tuesday 25 January 2011:

"The sublime vision comes to the pure and simple soul in a clean and chaste body."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen:

"The Perfect Way is only difficult for those who pick and choose;
do not like, do not dislike: all will then be clear."
-Seng-Ts'an

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Monday 24 January 2011:

"At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want."
- Lao-tzu

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen:

"I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These things are your greatest treasures."
- Lao-tzu

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Sat/Sun 22/23 January 2011:

"In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present."
- Tao Te Ching

Monday, March 28, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen:

"We are here, and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."
- H.L. Mencken

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Friday 21 January 2011:

"Calm is the morn without a sound,
Calm as to suit a calmer grief,
And only through the faded leaf
The chestnut pattering to the ground"
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen:

"Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness..."
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Thursday 20 January 2011:

"The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has attained liberation from the self"
- Albert Einstein

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Fortune Cookie

I was at a Chinese restaurant before going to the Symphony. This is what my fortune cookie said:
"You will receive an unexpected gift from an acquaintance."

Inspiration: Saturday 26 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"Silence accompanies the most significant expressions of happiness and unhappiness..."
- Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Wednesday 19 January 2011:

"The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying."
- Saint Anthony

Friday, March 25, 2011

Inspiration: Friday 25 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"He who binds to himself a joy,
Does the winged life destroy;
But he how kisses the joy as it flies,
Lives in eternity's sunrise."
- William Blake

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Tuesday 18 January 2011:

"The person of superior integrity
does not insist upon his integrity.
For this reason, he has integrity. 
The person of inferior integrity
never loses sight of his integrity;
For this reason, he lacks integrity."
- Lao-tzu

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Inspiration: Thursday 24 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,
These three alone lead life to sovereign power."
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Monday 17 January 2011:

"He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden."
- Plato

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Inspiration: Wednesday 23 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look at the stars. This practice should answer the question."
- Lao-tzu

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Sat/Sun 15/16 January 2011:

"Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy."
- Christina Baldwin

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Inspiration: Tuesday 22 March 2011

Today's Zen:


"A contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not."
- Akhenaton

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Friday 14 January 2011:

"To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind."
- Seng-Ts'an

Monday, March 21, 2011

Inspiration: Monday 21 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"You shouldn't allow yourself
To be confused by others.
Act when you need to,
Without further hesitation or doubt.
People today can't do this.
What is their affliction?
Wheir affliction is in their
Lack of self-confidence."
- Linji

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Thursday 13 January 2011:

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
- Chinese proverb

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Inspiration:Sunday 20 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"A happy life consists of tranquility of mind"
- Cicero

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Wednesday 12 January 2011:

"It is not only by the questions we have answered that progress may be measured, but also by those we are still asking. 
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."
- Freda Adler

Friday, March 18, 2011

Joe Trebble serial update

Recently I found some more chapters to Joe Trebble and the Bio Tech Conspiracy I had written a while ago. I will be adding them to that blog over the next few weeks as I type them up.

Two of the chapters which were written about 2.5 years ago, and I thought were lost, were also found. Luckily they still fit into the overall story, though not in sequence based on the date they are written. Instead they will be placed in the middle of others I wrote about a year ago. 

The full serial can be found here: http://joetrebble.blogspot.com/

Inspiration: Friday 18 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?"
- Kahlil Gibran

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Tuesday 11 January 2011:

"Meditation is not an escape from life, but preparation for really being in life."
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Inspiration: Thursday 17 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"Knowing that I am of the same nature as all other natural things, I know that there is really no separate self, no separate personality, no absolute death and no absolute life."
- T'ien T'ung-Hsu

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Monday 10 January 2011:

"Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity."
- Shunryu Suzuki

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Inspiration: Wednesday 16 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"Let your mind function freely without abiding anywhere or in anything."
-Hui-Neng

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Sat/Sun 8/9 January 2011:

"In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish."
- Simone Weil

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Inspiration: Tuesday 15 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"The undisturbed mind is like the calm body of water reflecting the brilliance of the moon."
-Yagyu Jubei

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Thursday 6 January 2011:

"Contentment is natural wealth. Luxury is artificial poverty."
- Socrates

Monday, March 14, 2011

Inspiration: Monday 14 March 2011

Today's Zen:

"Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation."
- Lao-tzu

Today's Tarot

1) Card of the day (the important aspects of the day ahead)
2) Attend to this (personal issues that will require attention)
3) What to look out for (feelings, desires or reactions that could arise)



Zen from Friday 7 January 2011:

"Do not turn away what is given you,
Nor reach out for what is given to others,
Lest you disturb your quietness."
- The Dhammapada