The meeting of two personalities
is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
You are what you do,
not what you say you’ll do.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Alan Watts quotes
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
Zen does not confuse spirituality
with thinking about God while
one is peeling potatoes.
Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Faith is a state of openness or trust.
You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
living… being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in
having the mind open the socalled
present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between an all
powerfully causative past and an absorbingly important future.
Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation.
“The meaning of life is just to be alive.
It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
“You are a function
of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”.
“If you say that getting the money is the most important thing, you’ll spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living, that is to go on doing thing you don’t like doing.
Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone.
Write like
you have a
message from
the king.
Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who
doesn’t have to.”
“The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”
message from
the king.
Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who
doesn’t have to.”
“The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.”
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.”
“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged
constellations.”
As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary.
We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.”
You are meaning.”
“What I am really saying is that you don’t need to do anything, because if you see yourself in the correct way, you are all as much extraordinary phenomenon of nature as trees, clouds, the patterns in running water, the flickering of fire, the arrangement of the stars, and the form of a galaxy. You are all just like that, and there is nothing wrong with you at all.”We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.”
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Running away from fear is fear, fighting pain is pain,
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