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The seeing itself can never be seen.
Joan Tollifson
Human memory, driven by emotional self-interest, goes to extraordinary lengths to provide evidence to back up whatever understanding of the world we have our hearts set on—however removed that may be from reality.
David Shields
I know of nothing more difficult than knowing who you are and having the courage to share the reasons for the catastrophe of your character with the world.
David Shields
No matter what is added to or subtracted from experience nothing is gained nor lost.
The most profound recognition finds its complete realisation without articulation.
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
David Shields
I am space for you. I am the space in which you are held. I disappear in your favour.
It is inevitably true that life is suffering. But the reverse is also true: suffering is life. It is in the midst of suffering that we get to exercise so many of the virtues that make us human. Our sense of courage, justice, compassion, wisdom; all these things manifest and operate in and because of the reality of suffering.
Barry Magid
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Philip K. Dick
Zen doesn’t have any answers.
Barry Magid
Thoughts and feelings will not kill you, nor will they save you.
Robert Saltzman
Cause and effect is always a story, a conceptual overlay that selects a tiny part of the whole and leaves out everything else.
Joan Tollifson
...that moment when you finally become so entirely yourself that you are no longer even aware of, or concerned with, yourself. When every ounce of awareness is so busy focused on living that you haven’t an iota of energy left to spend on self-management.
Shiv Sengupta
Self help? Help someone else.
The meaning of a tree is to be tree; the meaning of the sky simply is the sky, and so on. We might say that from this perspective, the meaning of what’s happening is inseparable from simply what’s happening. And that “what” that’s happening moment after moment is all the answer there is. In the end, our question isn’t answered so much as it simply drops away.
Barry Magid
In a sense, and as in melodrama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you or that you do not understand it.
Albert Camus
...the meaning of the moment is synonymous with being the moment, regardless of its content.
Barry Magid
Reality is something you could question; realness is beyond all doubt.
David Shields
We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
Pema Chödrön