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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Monday, March 31, 2014

Daily Inspiration

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
- Confucius
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 29/30 Mar 2014


We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 31 Mar 2014

Friday, March 28, 2014

Daily Inspiration

The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 28 Mar 2014

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Daily Inspiration

When you know a thing, it hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do now know it - this is knowledge. 
- Confucius
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 27 Mar 2014

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Daily Inspiration

The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 26 Mar 2014

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Daily Inspiration

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in small matters.
- Confucius
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 25 Mar 2014

Monday, March 24, 2014

Daily Inspiration

The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious.
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 24 Mar 2014

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Daily Inspiration

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 22/23 Mar 2014

Friday, March 21, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Be soft in your practice. 
Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you.
- Sheng-yen
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 21 Mar 2014

Thursday, March 20, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 20 Mar 2014

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Daily Inspiration

When the highest type of men hear Tao, 
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of man hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it.
- Lao Tzu
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 19 Mar 2014

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Daily Inspiration

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 18 Mar 2014

Monday, March 17, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
- Confucius
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 17 Mar 2014

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 15/16 Mar 2014

Friday, March 14, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contradictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by nor meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.
- Lao Tzu
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 14 Mar 2014

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Our life is frittered away by detail. Simply, simplify.
- Henry David Thoreau
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 13 Mar 2014

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Daily Inspiration

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love;
it is the prerogative of the brave.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 12 Mar 2014

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Daily Inspiration

On life's journey, faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 11 Mar 2014

Monday, March 10, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Our theories of the eternal are as valuable as are those which a chick which has not broken its way through its shell might form of the outside world.
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 10 Mar 2014

Sunday, March 9, 2014

Daily Inspiration

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 8/9 Mar 2014

Saturday, March 8, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Good and evil do not befall men without reason. 
Heaven sends them happiness or misery according to their conduct.
- Confucius
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 7 Mar 2014

Thursday, March 6, 2014

Daily Inspiration

To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality;
to assert the emptiness of things is to miss their reality.
The more you talk and thing about it, the further astray you wander from the truth.
Stop talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know.
- Hsin Hsin Ming
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 6 Mar 2014

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Daily Inspiration

When anger rises,
think of the consequences.
- Confucius
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 5 Mar 2014

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care, for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. 
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 4 Mar 2014

Monday, March 3, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Those who are firm, enduring, simple and unpretentious are the nearest to virtue. 
- Confucius
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 3 Mar 2014

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Daily Inspiration

The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten.
The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten.
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.
- Chuang Tzu
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 1/2 Mar 2014