Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine." But that feeling has dropped away from me completely. I live here and now, this minute, this day, to the full, and the life is worth living. —Etty Hillesum More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
So many gods, so many creeds, / so many paths that wind and wind, / While just the art of being kind is all the sad world needs. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox More about this quote Tags: God kindness sadness need Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do not believe in God. I believe in cashmere. —Fran Lebowitz More about this quote Tags: God Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. Songs like "Let Me Rest on a Peaceful Mountain" or "I Saw the Light" — that's my religion. I don't adhere to rabbis, preachers, evangelists, all of that. . . . The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs. —Bob Dylan More about this quote Tags: truth religion philosophy music belief songs Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And now I have to confess the unpardonable and the scandalous. I am a happy man. And I am going to tell you the secret of my happiness. It is quite simple. I love mankind. I love love. I hate hate. I try to understand and accept. —Jean Cocteau More about this quote Tags: love hate happiness secret scandal Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? —Samuel Beckett More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The young student said to his master, "Am I in possession of Buddha consciousness?" The master said, "No." The student said, "Well, I've been told that all things are in the possession of Buddha consciousness: the rocks, the trees, the butterflies, the birds, the animals, all beings." The master said, "You are correct. All things are in possession of Buddha consciousness: the rocks, the trees, the butterflies, the bees, the birds, the animals, all beings – but not you." "Not me? Why not?" "Because you are asking this question. —D. T. Suzuki More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: reality fear humor dreams Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The ultimate destiny of the human spirit is a condition in which all identification with the . . . finite self will disappear. . . . As a minor dream vanishes completely on awakening, awareness will be eclipsed in the blazing light of total awareness. Some say, "The dewdrop slips into the shining sea." Others say the metaphor would be more accurate if it pictured the ocean as entering the dewdrop itself. —Huston Smith More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. —Salvador Dali More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own. —Thomas Friedman More about this quote Tags: understanding difference logic mistake math Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Either I exist or I do not exist, and no amount of pap which I happen to be lapping can dull me to the loss. —William Carlos Williams More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. —Yasutani Roshi More about this quote Tags: delusion humanity commonality difference Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And did you get what you wanted from this life even so? I did. And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth. —Raymond Carver More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Our lives don't really belong to us, you see — they belong to the world, and in spite of our efforts to make sense of it, the world is a place beyond our understanding. —Paul Auster More about this quote Tags: understanding life ownership effort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email