The nature of God is a circle of which the center
is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
-Empedocles |
If the doors of perception were cleansed,
everything would appear to man as it is,
infinite.
-Wm. Blake |
The eye with which I see God is the same eye
with which God sees me.
-Meister Eckhart |
Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.
-Zen saying
Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering. There is a
crack in everything. That’s how the light
gets in.
-Leonard Cohen |
If you cannot find the truth right where you
are, where else do you expect to find it?
-Dogen |
The only Zen you find on the tops of
mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
-Robert Pirsig |
We dance around in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
-Robert Frost |
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself,
and all the while A great wind is
bearing me across the sky.
-Ojibwa saying |
A morning glory at my window satisfies
me more than the metaphysics of books.
-Walt Whitman |
When you are deluded and full of doubt,
even a thousand books of scripture
are not enough. When you have realized
understanding, even one word is too much.
-Fen Yang |
It is good to have an end to journey toward;
but it is the journey that matters,
in the end.
-Ursula Le Guin |
Go-not knowing where. Bring-not knowing what.
The path is long, the way unknown.
-Russian Fairy Tale |
The map is not the territory.
-Alfred Korzbyski |
In walking, just walk. In sitting, just sit.
Above all, don’t wobble.
-Yun Men |
Every exit is an entry somewhere else.
-Tom Stoppard |
The only joy in the world is to begin.
-Cesare Pavese |
How shall I grasp it? Do not grasp it.
That which remains when there
is not more grasping is the Self.
-Panchadasi |
And everything comes to One, As we
dance on, dance on, dance on.
-Theodore Roethke |
Teach us to care and not to care.
Teach us to sit still.
-T. S. Eliot |
Act without doing; work without effort.
-Tao Te Ching |
We think in generalities, but we live
in details.
-Alfred North Whitehead |
Teachers open the door, but you must
enter by yourself.
-Chinese proverb |
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps
of the men of old; seek what they
sought.
-Basho |
In this very breath that we take now
lies the secret that all great
teachers try to tell us.
-Peter Matthiessen |
