Atheism Quote by Stephen Batchelor

“I have an odd capacity to escape reality. It makes life much more pleasant. Now, in this moment, I realize I have no intention…

— John Kenney

“To live in the realm of Buddha nature means to die as a small being, moment after moment.”

— Shunryu Suzuki

“My life is never influenced by death because I am full of resurrections after so many spiritual and emotional demises”

— Munia Khan

“I’ve always felt that virtue lies in obtaining what is out of one’s reach, in living where one isn’t, in being more alive after…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I was encouraged to ask in all seriousness what this life is for, what matters most for myself and others, what non-negotiable values I…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Only through the death experience could man fully understand his life experience. Only through the realization that his days on earth were finite could…

— Dan Brown

“The Buddha asks us to stop drifting thoughtlessly through our lives and instead to pay careful attention to simple truths that are everywhere available…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“For the dead can live only with the exact intensity and quality of the life imparted to them by the living.”

— Joseph Conrad

“We have underestimated ourselves tragically. We are sadly mistaken when we see ourselves as merely temporary bodies instead of timeless spirit; as separate, suffering…

— Roger Walsh

“I was more concerned with refining my sense of the sheer mysteriousness of life so that it infused each moment of my waking existence,…

— Stephen Batchelor

“If you’re thinking that you’ll just dabble in these things, then you’ll never really understand them—you’ll never really penetrate into the mysteries of life…

— Belzebuub

“Already, I seemed to feel my intellect deteriorating, my heart petrifying, my soul contracting; and I trembled lest my very moral perceptions should become…

— Anne Brontë