"Be still. Do not speak. Try to sleep. Still your heart. And hope."

[Kire]

- Caine's advice on what to do when the air is running out.

http://www.kungfu-guide.com/12superstition.html

[Heidi]

1. Kire . . .

This is totally off-topic, but thank you for the Witches Taint thing in the pop culture forum. I hadn't laughed so hard in weeks. :hi:

[Kire]

2. "I am not guilty." - Caine

"I would like to buy some beans. And salt." - Caine (proving that, occasionally, he has money in his pouch)

[Heidi]

3. "If a man dwells on the past,

then he robs the present. But if a man ignores the past, he may rob the future. The seeds of our destiny are nurtured by the roots of our past." - Master Po (proving that the future of our future as a nation may very well depend upon wider dissemination of the Witches Taint link.)

[Kire]

4. "You are the leader here."

"What is 'cooperate?'" - Caine

[Heidi]

5. "to choose one or the other,

is to agree with a lie." - Caine

[Kire]

6. "Is it not foolish to be afraid of another man's bones?"

[Heidi]

7. ""Superstition is like a magnet.

It pulls you in the direction of your belief." - Master Po

[Kire]

11. "In time you will learn to fear only fear itself."

FDR...ahem...I mean Master Po

[Kire]

8. I was really trying to be serious.

I just got done watching Caine teach the men in a slave labor camp how to survive getting caved in the mine with almost no oxygen.

This series is not a comedy. And this episode shows why.

The one before it on the DVD was great too, "A Praying Mantis Kills":

"'I was cleansing my mind of impurities. Disturbances.' - Caine
'...how's that work?'
'It lets me see the nature of things as they really are.' - Caine
'Is that what keeps you from getting mad?'
'It is how I may encounter life's many faces with some sense of peace.'" - Caine, on meditating

"I do not do it. It is not done. . . It is only experienced. It happens." - Caine, on hitting a target without looking

[Heidi]

9. I loved the series.

I was raised Baptist and it was my first brush with another way of experiencing life.

[Kire]

10. I wish they could have this episode playing...

...on the big screen at the Superdome.

[Heidi]

12. I wouldn't mind that.

"Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful." -- Gautama Siddharta (not Caine or Master Po, but still good.)