Today is Arbitrarily Quote Day.

“To me death is not a failure but rather a necessary part of the life cycle of being incarnate. Imagine if plants didn't die, or if the note of a piano didn't fade into oblivion, or if a thought didn't arise and pass. Life would come to a standstill; it would drown in its own accumulation.” – Phillip Moffitt

"Yüeh-shan promised to give his monks a dharma talk. Instead he sat deep in zazen. Afterward, the head monk followed him back to his room and angrily said: 'You promised to give a dharma talk. But you didn't say a word.'

Yüeh-shan said: 'For sutras there are sutra specialists. For commentaries there are commentary specialists. What did you expect from this old monk?'" - zen mondo

"If a person becomes too involved and too preoccupied with the role he is playing, and his ego begins to identify solely with this role, the other sides of his personality will be shoved aside. Such a persona-ridden person becomes alienated from his nature, and lives in a state of tension because of the conflict between his overdeveloped persona and the underdeveloped parts of his personality...the person has an exaggerated sense of self-importance which derives from playing a role so successfully...often he tries to project this role on others and demands that they play the same role...on the other hand, the victim of inflation can also suffer feelings of inferiority and self-reproach when he is incapable of living up to the standards expected of him." - from a primer on Jung; it made me immediately think of a few people I know, but I can't imagine them reading this, so...well, so buttons

And cool word of the day: acrolect, a register of a spoken language that is considered formal and high-style