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, June 30, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Thursday 30 June 2011):

"Through contemplation, we realize that our own power proves inadequate, and we learn to trust a power that is beyond ourselves."
- Jim Wallis

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)



Other Inspirational Quotes:

"The ancestor of every action is a thought."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Wednesday 29 June 2011):

"Wherever my travels may lead, paradise is where I am."
- Voltaire

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)



Other Inspirational Quotes:

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing."
- Helen Keller

Tuesday, June 28, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Tuesday 28 June 2011):

"Listen closely...the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it."
- Jack Kerouac

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)



Other Inspirational Quotes:

"Imagination is the beginning of creation."
- George Bernard Shaw

Monday, June 27, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Monday 27 June 2011):

"To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still."
- J. 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)



Other Inspirational Quotes:

"Nothing is worth more than this day."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Sat/Sun 25/26 June 2011):

"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."
- Bruce Lee

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)



Other Inspirational Quotes:

"The Earth laughs in flowers."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Sat/Sun 25/26 June 2011):

"The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be."
- Bruce Lee

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)



Other Inspirational Quotes:

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
- Albert Einstein

Friday, June 24, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Friday 24 June 2011):

"The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there."
- Robert M. Pirsig

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)



Other Inspirational Quotes:

"Lose not the adventure of solitude."
- Sir Thomas Browne

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Thursday 23 June 2011):

"The wholeness and freedom we seek is our true nature, who we really are. Whenever we start a spiritual practice, read a spiritual book, or contemplate what is means to live well, we have begun the inevitable process of opening to this truth, the truth of life itself."
- Jack Kornfield

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)



Other Inspirational Quotes:

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
- Plato

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Wednesday 22 June 2011):

"People cling to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like a child who tries a little honey smeared on the edge of a knife. The amount is my no means sufficient to appease his appetite, and he runs the risk of wounding his tongue."
- Sutra of Forty-two Chapters

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)



Other Inspirational Quotes:

"What is essential is invisible to the eye."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Tuesday 21 June 2011):

"The soul that is attached to anything, however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of the divine."
- St. John of the Cross

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 20 June 2011:

"The universe is sacred. You cannot improve it. If you try to change it, you will ruin it. If you try to hold it , you will lose it."
- Lao-tzu

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Sat/Sun 18/19 June 2011):

"Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture can shine your heart or transmit anxiety. Your breath can radiate love or muddy the room in depression. Your glance can awaken joy. Your words can inspire freedom. Your every act can open hearts and minds."
- David Deide

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)



Other Inspirational Quotes:

"Follow your bliss."
- Joseph Campbell

Friday, June 17, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Friday 17 June 2011):

"Believe nothing because someone else believes it. But believe only in what you yourself judge to be true."
- Buddha

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)



Other Inspirational Quotes:

"Imagine all the people living life in peace."
- John Lennon

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Thursday 16 June 2011):

"Happiness is a quality of mind. It is something we possess within.... If we do not have it within, nothing outside can give it to us."
- Paramananda

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 15 June 2011:

"Especially in Zen is this true: abstract ideas that do not reflect themselves forcibly and efficiently in practical living are regarded as of no value. Conviction must be gained through experience and not through abstraction."
- D.T. Suzuki

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Tuesday 14 June 2011):

"Well-being means to be fully born, to become what one potentially is; it means to have the full capacity for joy and sadness or, to put it differently, to awake from the half-slumber the average man lives in and to be fully awake."
- Erich Fromm

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)



Other Inspirational Quotes:

"Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere."
- Oprah Winfrey

Monday, June 13, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Monday 13 June 2011):

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
- Dalai Lama

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)



Other Inspirational Quotes:

"Not all those who wander are lost."
- J.R.R. Tolkien

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Sat/Sun 11/12 June 2011):

"The mind is never right but when it is at peace with itself."
- Seneca

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)



Other Inspirational Quotes:

"Wisdom begins with wonder."
- Socrates

Friday, June 10, 2011

Daily Inspiration

Today's Zen (Friday 10 June 2011):

"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."
- William Saroyan

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)



Other Inspirational Quotes:

"Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life."
- Omar Khayyan