Brad Warner Quotes

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• You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away.
• The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop.
• People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no…
• Much of the hatred and fear of sexuality found in religions stems from the idea that sex is a thing of the body and that…
• Disappointment is just the action of your brain readjusting itself to reality after discovering things are not the way you thought they were.
• We always imagine that there's got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now; this is the Great Somewhere Else we all…
• The trick to not thinking is not adding energy to the equation in an effort to forcibly stop thinking from happening. It’s more a matter…
• Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a…
• Morality is a personal matter.
• Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don't match how they really are.
• There are many diamonds in the world and if you lose your favorite, you can work hard, earn a lot of money and get another…
• If you want to believe in reincarnation, you have to believe that this life, what you're living through right now, is the afterlife. You're missing…
• The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself.
• If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise?
• Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.
• How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
• You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that…
• As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality.
• You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until…
• Consider this: 1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD? And here's a bonus question: 2. Why…

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