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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Saturday, December 31, 2011

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Today's Zen (31 December 2011):

"Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility.... Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed, or unhappy because of circumstances."
- Dalai Lama

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Today's Zen (30 December 2011):

"All the way to heaven is heaven."
- St. Catherine of Siena

Thursday, December 29, 2011

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Today's Zen (29 December 2011):

"The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors."
- Plautus

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

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Today's Zen (28 December 2011):

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone.... The Wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials."
- Lin Yutang

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

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Today's Zen (27 December 2011):

"Our true home is in the present moment. To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now."
- Thich Nhat Hanh

Monday, December 26, 2011

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Today's Zen (26 December 2011):

"As a solid rock is not shaken by the wind, the wise are not moved by praise or blame."
- The Dhammapada

Saturday, December 24, 2011

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Today's Zen (24/25 December 2011):


"If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life wold change."
- Buddha

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Today's Zen (23 December 2011):

"Our mind is like a clear glass of water. If we put salt into the water, it becomes salt water; sugar, it becomes sugar water. But originally the water is clear. No thinking, no mind. No mind, no problem."
- Seung Sahn

Thursday, December 22, 2011

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Today's Zen (22 December 2011):

"We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface or things....but there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper."
- James Carroll

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

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Today's Zen (21 December 2011):

"If you are waiting for anything in order to live and love without holding back, then you suffer."
- David Deida

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Today's Zen (20 December 2011):

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
- Aldous Huxley

Monday, December 19, 2011

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Today's Zen (19 December 2011):

"The effort of the genuine spiritual seeker should be to cultivate love until the mind becomes saturated by it."
- Bhante Y. Wimala

Saturday, December 17, 2011

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Today's Zen (17/18 December 2011):

"Where your treasure is,
there will your heart be also."
- Luke 12:34

Friday, December 16, 2011

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Today's Zen (16 December 2011):

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly."
- Buddha

Thursday, December 15, 2011

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Today's Zen (15 December 2011):

"The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Daily Zen

Today's Zen (14 December 2011):

"Calm Soul of all things! make it mine
To feel, amid the city's jar,
That there abides a place of thine,
Man did not make, and can not mar."
- Matthew Arnold

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

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Today's Zen (13 December 2011):

"In the root and stem of your own psyche, there is an accumulation of bad habits. If you cannot see through them and act independently of them, you will unavoidably get bogged down along the way."
- Yuansou


Zen from Friday 2 September 2011:

"When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you."
- Lao-tzu

Monday, December 12, 2011

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Today's Zen (12 December 2011):

"We choose our joys and our sorrows long before we experience them."
- Kahlil Gibran


Zen from Thursday 1 September 2011:

"Relaxation and concentration do hand in hand. But too much concentration defeats itself. If you are truly relaxed, and allow the body and the unconscious to do their share, instead of working the conscious mind overtime, concentration can become effortless effort."
- Joe Hyams

Saturday, December 10, 2011

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Today's Zen (Sat/Sun 10/11 December 2011):

"Wealth and honor are what people want, but if they are the consequence of deviating from the Way, I would have no part in them. Poverty and disgrace are what people deplore, but if they are the consequence of staying on the Way, I would not avoid them."
- Confucius


Zen from Wednesday 31 August 2011:

"Life is not meaningful ... unless it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else."
- Abraham Joshua Herscel

Friday, December 9, 2011

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Today's Zen (9 December 2011):

"We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath."
- Lawrence Binyon


Zen from Tuesday 30 August 2011:

"If you choose a job that you like, you will never have to work a day in your life."
- Confucius

Thursday, December 8, 2011

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Today's Zen (8 December 2011):

"Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now."
- Neale Donald Walsch


Zen from Monday 29 August 2011:

"The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the bans of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world."
- Zhuang Tzi

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

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Today's Zen (7 December 2011):

"Heaven and heart Remain peacefully unmoved,
Yet their life breath is
Unceasing, and is seldom
Known to rest."
- Hung Ying-Ming


Zen from Sat/Sun 27/28 August 2011:

"Live in love
And do your work;
Make amends of your sorrows;
For just as the jasmine
Releases and lets fall its withered flowers,
Let fall willfulness and hatred."

- The Dhammapada


Zen from Sat/Sun 12/13 November 2011:

"It is proper to doubt. Do not be led by holy scriptures, or by mere logic or inference, or by appearances, or by the authority of religious leaders. But when you realize that something is unwholesome and bad for you, give it up. And when you realize that something is wholesome and good for you, do it."
- Buddha

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

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Today's Zen (6 December 2011):

"Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."
- Thich Nhat Hanh


Zen from Friday 26 August 2011:

"To the right, books; to the left, a teacup. In front of me, the fireplace. ... There is no greater happiness than this."
- Teiga


Zen from Friday 11 November 2011:

"Consider life and death equal,
And the intellect is not afraid;
Consider change as sameness,
And clarity is not obscured."

- Lao-tzu

Monday, December 5, 2011

Daily Zen

Today's Zen (5 December 2011):

"Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone."
- Louis L'Amour


Zen from Thursday 25 August 2011:

"The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world."
- Marianne Williamson


Zen from Thursday 10 November 2011:

"God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is."
- Marianne Williamson

Sunday, December 4, 2011

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Today's Zen (4 December 2011):

"Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence, not in an exemption from suffering."
- Francis Fenelon


Zen from Wednesday 24 August 2011:

"Friend, hope for the truth while you are alive. Jump into experience while you are alive! What you call 'salvation' belongs to the time before death. If you don't break your ropes while you are alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?"
- Kabir


Zen from Wednesday 9 November 2011:

"It is the spur of ignorance, the consciousness of not understanding, and the curiosity about that which lies beyond that are essential to our progress."
- John Pierce

Saturday, December 3, 2011

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Today's Zen (3 December 2011):

"Peace does not dwell in outward things, but within the soul; we may preserve it in the midst of the bitterest pain, if our will remains firm and submissive. Peace in this life springs from acquiescence, not in an exemption from suffering."
- Francis Fenelon


Zen from Tuesday 23 August 2011:

"From the pine tree learn of the pine tree, and from the bamboo learn of the bamboo."
- Basho


Zen from Tuesday 8 November 2011:

"When you do a thing, do it with the whole self. One thing at a time. Now I sit here and I eat. For me nothing exists in the world except this food, this table. I eat with the whole attention. So you must do - in everything."
- George J. Gurdjieff

Friday, December 2, 2011

Daily Zen

Today's Zen (2 December 2011):

"Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed."
- Buddha


Zen from Monday 22 August 2011:

"Walking is Zen,
Sitting, too, is Zen.
If I speak or am silent,
Tarry or hasten:
Everything, in its true nature,
Is stillness."

- Shodoka


Zen from Monday 7 November 2011:

"For it is by giving that one receives; It is by self-forgetting that one finds; It is by forgiving that one is forgiven; It is by dying that one awakens to eternal life."
- St. Francis of Assisi

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Daily Zen

Today's Zen (1 December 2011):

"Be the master of mind, rather than mastered by mind."
- Zen saying


Zen from Sat/Sun 20/21 August 2011:

"Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion."
- Thich Nhat Hanh


Zen from Sat/Sun 5/6 November 2011:

"The only devils in the world are those running in our own hearts. That is where the battle should be fought."
- Gandhi