329 quotes found
“It is significant comment on the victory of science over magic that were someone to say if I put this pill in your beer it will explode, we might believe them; but were they to cry if I pronounce t...”
“At the same time, we may not as a culture be fond of old-fashioned supernaturalism, but we certainly like spirituality in whatever form we can get it. I suspect that if anyone other than Jesus (Kri...”
“We are condemned to be modern. We cant escape the facts of our history or of living in an age dominated by instrumental rationality, even as we look for ways out of it... But it has become our hist...”
“We are equal beings and the universe is our relations with each other.”
“The elements of chemistry are many, but finite so are the techniques of enlightenment; everybody falls in love somehow.”
“The road to enlightenment requires a life dedicated to self-study, accepting the minor tragedies of life as an ineluctable part of the human condition.”
“All roads taken lead us only to ourselves.”
“We cannot replicate other peoples lives. We must each institute and broker a personalized meaning to our exclusive existence. We must each serve as our own Zen master, awaken to our inviolate perso...”
“The sea is only the embodiment of asupernatural and wonderful existence.It is nothing but love and emotionit is the Living Infinite... ”
“I have to remind myself that I've always known this: Evolution is not for everybody.”
“The unconscious mind goes on doing things and creating problems. There is no wall at all that you have to push through. The real thing is that you want to push, you are in a hurry. And because you ...”
“Just as someone obsessed with becoming a millionaire focuses on gaining riches and can miss out on living a fun, balanced life, so someone obsessed with being enlightened or being totally free of a...”
“It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. We are not the less to aim at the summits though...”
“He who wishes to know, must seek to understand.”
“In order to grow sometimes we must cease striving to meet other peoples expectations and begin establishing new goals that develop our personal potential. If we live a life to satisfy all the direc...”
“Writing about the self to spur intellectual growth or attain a teardrop of emotional salvation is akin to a fish attempting to construct a net that will capture itself.”
“You know, memories. They're all I've got.”
“Enlightenment is nothing but to experience your own mind. The experience of the self too is experiencing the intrinsic nature of the mind.”
“When a man does not dwell in self, then things will of themselves reveal their forms to him. His movement is like that of water, his stillness like that of a mirror, his responses like those of an ...”
“The man who has forgotten self may be said to have entered Heaven.”
