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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Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. 
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 19 Aug 2014


While you are not able to serve men, how can you serve spirits (of the dead)? While you do not know life, how can you know about death?
- Confucius
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 9 Sept 2014

Monday, September 8, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Love never claims, it ever gives.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 18 Aug 2014


Death carries off a man which is gathering flowers and whose mind is distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping village.
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 8 Sept 2014

Sunday, September 7, 2014

Daily Inspiration

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
- Confucius
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 6/7 Sept 2014

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Little faith is put in them
Whose faith is small.
- Lao Tzu
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 16/17 Aug 2014

Friday, September 5, 2014

Daily Inspiration

What the superior man seeks is in himself; 
what the mean man seeks is in others.
- Confucius
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 15 Aug 2014


Better to live alone;
with a fool there is no companionship.
With few desires live alone and do no evil, like an elephant in the forest roaming at will.
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 5 Sept 2014

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Life and death are one thread,
the same line viewed from different sides.
- Lao Tzu
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 14 Aug 2014


Do not speak, unless it improves on silence.
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 4 Sept 2014

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament.
Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 13 Aug 2014


Manifest plainness,
Embrace simplicity,
Reduce selfishness,
Have few desires.
- Lao Tzu
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 3 Sept 2014

Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Eminence without humility:
This is the death indeed of all our hope.
- Lao Tzu
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 12 Aug 2014


When armies are mobilized and issues (are) joined. The man who is sorry over the fact will win.
- Lao Tzu
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 2 Sep 2014

Monday, September 1, 2014

Daily Inspiration

A flower falls, even though we love it; 
and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.
- Dogen Zenji
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 11 Aug 2014


When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 1 Sept 2014