356 quotes found
“If we are to be aware of life while we are living it, we must have the courage to relinquish our hard-earned control of ourselves.”
“Master Teachers who genuinely embody an enlightened state of being never stop doing the work. The ego is what assumes it knows enough, causing cessation of these daily practices, and therefore, Mas...”
“Being a dumb is better than being a dummy”
“Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.”
“Im more than this kinesthetic intelligence of us trapped in this great chain of being that belongs to all of us.”
“Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being . . . my essence . . . is a part of all Being, all Essence.”
“Right where you are, the potential of the universe is.”
“The deepest realization of meditation is that your being is a non-being. It is a nothing, a vast emptiness without boundaries. It is a no-self. The feeling of self, of "I" is false.”
“Be a man: accept the challenge of the unknown, of the beyond. Let it become a great dream in your being.”
“And yet, and yet Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are apparent desperations and secret consolations. Our destiny is not frightful by being unreal; ...”
“Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.”
“There is only Love -- and Stories. All else is but a shadow dream.”
“The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)”
“Every form is an image. Every image is a name. Every name is an attribute, every attribute a verb. Every verb forms the sentence to be read on Judgement Day, from the very QuraanulQariim that is fo...”
“Levade had told her one day that there was no such thing as a coherent personality. When you are forty you have no cell in your body that you had at eighteen. It was the same, he said, with your ch...”
“Imagine that every mans mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spring. If the ocean were to vanish, that would be ...”
“I relinquished myself to existence pure and simple, thinking absolutely nothingas if my mind were merely an echo chamber for the music, as if it contained only ether or at most a vaguely pleasant o...”
“It's very, very dangerous to lose contact with living nature.”
“Find me the perfect human being and I'll show you Jesus Christ.”
“Jesus and Satan appear here as repre sentatives of two opposite principles. Satan is the representative of material consumption and of power over nature and Man. Jesus is the representative of bein...”
