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- Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
- To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be…
- Better to have a short life that is full of what you like doing than a long life spent in a miserable way...
- It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into…
- The hostile attitude of conquering nature ignores the basic interdependence of all things and events--that the world beyond the skin is actually an extension of…
- By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives…
- 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…
- The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love.
- 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…
- When death comes, it's just like winter. We don't say, "There ought not to be winter." That the winter season, when the leaves fall and…
- The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
- The real you is not a puppet that life pushes around, the real deep down you is the whole universe.
- We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get…
- What you do is what the whole universe is doing at the place you call the here and now. You are something the whole universe…
- Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name…
- The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.
- Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown…
- There are two specific objections to use of psychedelic drugs.First,use of these drugs may be dangerous.Howev er,every worth-while exploration is dangerous-climb ing mountains,testi ng aircraft,rocket…
- What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life?
- Without birth and death, and without the perpetual transmutation of all the forms of life, the world would be static, rhythm-less, undancing, mummified.
- Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo,…
- What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of…
- To feel life is meaningless unless "I" can be permanent is like having desperately fallen in love with an inch.
- The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the…
- 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…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle