I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life. —Pearl S. Buck More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life happens to be both a severe and an endlessly kind teacher. It's the only authority that you need to trust. And this teacher, this authority, is everywhere. You don't have to go to some special place to find this incomparable teacher; you don't have to have some especially quiet or ideal situation: in fact, the messier it is, the better. The average office is a great place. The average home is perfect. . . . That is where the authority, the teacher is. —Charlotte Joko Beck More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sit at the feet of the master long enough, and they'll start to smell. —John Sauget More about this quote Tags: humor feet masters Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am not so arrogant as to presume that only my intellectual superiors can teach me. If such were the case then the teacher would learn nothing from her disciples, the parents nothing from their children, and I nothing from the animals, from whom I have learned so much. —Caroline Cozza More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Spiritual seekers look for self-realization or enlightenment in the future. To be a seeker implies that you need the future. If this is what you believe, it becomes true for you: you will need time until you realize that you don't need time to be who you are. —Eckhart Tolle More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the nonintellectuals have never stirred. —Aldous Huxley More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't put your faith in anyone. You have it all inside you. You're always asking the masters. Why don't you ask yourselves? Forget the masters. —Jiddu Krishnamurti More about this quote Tags: faith experts masters Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. —Willa Cather More about this quote Tags: trees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A person who says, "I'm enlightened," probably isn't. —Ram Dass More about this quote Tags: knowledge certainty doubt bias enlightenment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit. —Sir Walter Scott More about this quote Tags: trees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Enlightenment is not an attainment; it is a realization. When you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes. If a blind man realizes that he can see, has the world changed? —Dan Millman More about this quote Tags: perception change realization nothing the world enlightenment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. —Saint Bernard More about this quote Tags: trees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now? —Byron Katie More about this quote Tags: now moment forever enlightenment Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. —Publilius Syrus More about this quote Tags: trees Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email