356 quotes found
“Without thoughts the mind cannot exist only consciousness”
“Butterfly upon my hand, A voice of wonder within my mind, not my own but the butterfly's.”
“The most important thing that is happening in the world right now is the emerging of the new man.Since the monkeys, man has remained the same, but a great revolution is on it's way. When monkeys be...”
“So long as I perceive the world as hostile, I remain linked to it: *I am not crazy*. But sometimes, once my bad temper is exhausted, I have no language left at all: the world is not "unreal" (I cou...”
“If you wish to find the strength of being, read the Holy Bible.”
“Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying ones painful self through the world.But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like wa...”
“Are you doing life or are you living?”
“He had come to that moment in his age when there occurred to him, with increasing intensity, a question of such overwhelming simplicity that he had no means to face it. He found himself wondering i...”
“He put his life on hold as he waited for his life to begin.”
“Still there are moments when one feels free from ones own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments, one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazin...”
“What destiny is there, but to sense, observe, merge, re-emerge,Empty, yet filled, spreading everywhere, inside, outside, in, Pulsing, fluctuating, breathing as part of one being, Whispering, feelin...”
“Zen is a liberation from time. For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without a...”
“To say "all that which does not exist" is to introduce, effectively, a new concept, but it does not bring into existence anything more than that very concept which it introduces. That is, a certain...”
“I experience reality as a system of power. Coluche, the restaurant, the painter, Rome on a holiday, everything imposes on me its system of being; everyone is *badly behaved*. Isn't their impolitene...”
“Where there is no consciousness, there is no time.”
“So it happens that we must ask ourselves, with regard to truth, not for a new criterion for it, which will be better polished than earlier ones, but, peremptorily and seizing it by the lapels, "wha...”
“It comes out from no source, it goes back in through no aperture. It has reality yet no place where it resides; it has duration yet no beginning or end. Something emerges, though through no apertur...”
“When he placed a candle on the shelf across the room from him and lit its wick, he came to realize that in fact everything he saw was a flat surface, like a screen that in fact dimension was an il...”
“Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesnt have limits. Existence means theres always something else, and so everything has limits. Why is it so hard to conceive that a...”
“the Great Vaccination the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.”
