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- Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we…
- Only words and conventions can isolate us from the entirely undefinable something which is everything.
- The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which…
- To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.
- The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
- Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.
- Parts exist only for purposes of figuring and describing, and as we figure the world out we become confused if we do not remember this…
- Every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree.
- Life and love generate effort, but effort will not generate them. Faith-in life, in other people, and in oneself-is the attitude of allowing the spontaneous…
- What you are basically, deep, deep down, far, far in, is simply the fabric and structure of existence itself.
- The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or…
- Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space.
- There was never a time when the world began, because it goes round and round like a circle, and there is no place on a…
- There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too…
- You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are.
- The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.
- But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
- 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…
- We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
- Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well…
- How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque…
- You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
- What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do.
- The menu is not the meal.
- 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…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
- Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. — Matthew Arnold
- I couldn't sleep one night and I was sitting in my office and I realized that I was an independent filmmaker. — Darren Aronofsky
- For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take… — Mary Kay Ash
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov