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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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Let go of the past, let go of the future, let go of the present, and cross over to the farther shore of existence. With mind wholly liberated, you shall come no more to birth and death.
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 5 Nov 2014



Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
- Confucius
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 6 Nov 2014

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Daily Inspiration

And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment.
- Bodhidharma
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 3 Nov 2014



Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Confucius
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 4 Nov 2014

Monday, November 10, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.
Do not overdo it.
- Lao Tzu
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 31 Oct 2014



Great wisdom is generous; 
petty wisdom is contentious.
- Chuang Tzu
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 1/2 Nov 2014

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Daily Inspiration

We acquire the strength
we have overcome.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 29 Oct 2014



Our life is shaped by our mind;
we become what we think.
Suffering follows an evil thought as the wheels of a cart follow the oxen that draws it.
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 30 Oct 2014

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Daily Inspiration

Truth is by nature self-evident.
As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Mon 27 Oct 2014



I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Tue 28 Oct 2014

Friday, November 7, 2014

Daily Inspiration

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, to discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Fri 24 Oct 2014




People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Sat/Sun 25/26 Oct 2014

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Daily Inspiration

I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Confucius
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Wed 22 Oct 2014



If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
- Buddha
Zen, 2014 day-at-a-time calendar; Thu 23 Oct 2014