You will be dead soon enough

Posted in Stones on the Path on September 30th, 2005 by DhammaSeeker

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
~ WIlliam Saroyan

the study of the “unthinkable”

Posted in Stones on the Path on September 30th, 2005 by DhammaSeeker

Apply yourselves, day after day, year after year, to the study of the “unthinkable.”
~ Soen Nakagawa

how to un-know

Posted in Stones on the Path on September 28th, 2005 by DhammaSeeker

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.
~ Sir Richard Francis Burton

to be fully awake

Posted in Stones on the Path on September 26th, 2005 by DhammaSeeker

Well-being means to be fully born, to become what one potentially is; it means to have the full capacity for joy and sadness or, to put it still differently, to awake from the half-slumber the average man lives in and to be fully awake.
~ Erich Fromm

a ringing that we share

Posted in Stones on the Path on September 26th, 2005 by DhammaSeeker

The secret of the mountains is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no “meaning,” they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share. I understand all this, not in my mind but in my heart, knowing how meaningless it is to try to capture what cannot be expressed, knowing that mere words will remain when I read it all again, another day.
~ Peter Matthiessen