From One Survivor to Another

 -African Proverb (via africanstories)

i feel like this often… in so many ways. :/

(via bad-dominicana)

That’s interesting, because there’s a popular saying in Buddhism, do not mistake the finger pointing at the moon for the moon itself. It’s said that truth is like the moon and words are like a finger pointing at the moon, but if you only look at the finger, you miss the moon.

(via zuky)

There’s quite a few Sufi sayings along this line, but the basic one is, “Don’t mistake the container for the thing it contains”.

Given the Silk Road connection between Africa and Asia, I wouldn’t be surprised that there’s shared wisdom across the path - for example the Ifa divination with the Odu uses the same binary system as the Chinese I-Ching, only differing in the number of divisions being read.

(via bankuei)