Eliminating Quote by Gerald May Download Open image “Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.” — Gerald May ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Eliminating Illuminating May Philosophy of Mind
Not thinking about anything is Zen. Once you know this, walking, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is Zen. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
To have Zen is to be in a state of pure sensation. It is to be freed from the grip of concepts, to see… — Alan Keightley Copy Share Image
Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive. — Tom Hoover Copy Share Image
Zen is about breaking out of your ideas and experiencing life and not ideas. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you are around a lot of human beings who are filled with jealousy and anger and rage and desire, it filters into the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention. — Philip Toshio Sudo Copy Share Image
In advanced Zen a person comes to realize that the existence of things and their ability to perceive them correctly is completely dependent upon… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To know that… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being's awareness of itself in us. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
But love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
Addiction is not something we can simply take care of by applying the proper remedy. For it is in the very nature of addiction… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
Grief is neither a disorder nor a healing process; it is a sign of health itself, a whole and natural gesture of love. Nor… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
When the desire is too much to bear, we often bury it beneath frenzied thoughts and activities or escape it by dulling our immediate… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
Love's true nature remains forever beyond the grasp of all our faculties. It is far greater than any feeling or emotion and completely surpasses… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
Mysterious as it may be, there is something wonderful at the heart of our existence, and it is about nothing other than love; love… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
In every feeling, look deeply. Explore without ceasing. At bottom, love is. — Gerald May Copy Share Image
Willfulness must give way to willingness and surrender. Mastery must yield to mystery. — Gerald May Copy Share Image
Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
The difference between work and play is only a matter of attitude. Work, fully done, is play. — Gerald May Copy Share Image
To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace. — Gerald May Copy Share Image
I would prefer a thousand mistakes in extravagance of love to any paralysis in wariness of fear. — Gerald May Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar… — Amy Ridenour Copy Share Image
Skilled shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition. [Visa quotas] have been substituted for the wage… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Through pro-growth policies, by abolishing Obamacare and eliminating other Obama-imposed impediments to economic growth, we will get our economy back on track. — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
Are not our desires inseparably intertwined with the continuation of life? Even the idea of eliminating desire is fruitless. The desire to eliminate all… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international plutocracy eliminating… — Hendrik Hertzberg Copy Share Image
The left are not interested in what Chris Christie thinks. They're not interested in what McCain thinks. They're not interested in what Jeb Bush… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
...I see that White Light will only return to the planet when every human being recognizes every other human being as an individualized frequency… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show… — Katrina vanden Heuvel Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a happy life without difficulties or suffering. We create many of the problems we face. No one intentionally creates problems, but we… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Eliminating the death penalty...will not hinder the prosecutorial capacity to seek, or the court's ability to impose, 'life without parole' sentences for serious, heinous… — Scott Harshbarger Copy Share Image
