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Sit at the feet of the master long enough, and they'll start to smell.

—John Sauget

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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

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We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.

—H. L. Mencken

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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

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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

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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

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I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

—Willa Cather

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A person who says, "I'm enlightened," probably isn't.

—Ram Dass

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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit.

—Sir Walter Scott

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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

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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

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Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?

—Byron Katie

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You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

—Publilius Syrus

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But the important thing is not the finding. It is the seeking. It is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it, because your heart would not have been purified by the long quest.

—Umberto Eco

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Trees, though they are cut and lopped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.

—Pericles

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