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
Concepts can be discussed forever without needing to put any skin in the game at all—but when this aliveness is cut, it bleeds.
Robert Saltzman
…each moment is sufficient unto itself.
Robert Saltzman
You are a child playing with clay complaining about the shapes that you yourself are fashioning out of it. It isn’t “freedom” that you lack. Rather, it’s the courage to take responsibility for just how free you really are.
Shiv Sengupta
It’s not as if you can get something from someone or give something to someone.
Kodo Sawaki
Remembering his life, he imagined it.
David Shields
Remembering his life, he imagined it.
David Shields
I can relate to:
“You mean there’s all this?!”
rather than:
“You mean this is all there is?”
The dark side of living cannot be avoided forever. For every freedom there is a proportionate responsibility that must be assumed. And those who chase the freedoms but shirk the accompanying responsibilities live in a state of perpetual escape.
Shiv Sengupta