Tag: Stones on the Path

The only practice that is worthwhile is to ask: “What is this?” WHAT IS THIS?
~ Zen saying

Search for a discipline within freedom! Don’t let yourself be governed by formulae drawn from decadent philosophies: they are for the feeble-minded.

Listen to no one’s advice except that of the wind in the trees. That can recount the whole history of mankind…

~ Claude Debussy

Don’t be consistent, but be simply true.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Seeing misery in views and opinions, without adopting any, I found inner peace and freedom. One who is free does not hold to views or dispute opinions. For a sage there is no higher, lower, no equal, no places in which the mind can stick. But those who grasp after views and opinions only wander about the world annoying people.
~ The Sutta Nipata

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
~ Jack Kornfield

There is clearly a sacred dimension to our existence, and coming to terms with it could well be the highest purpose of human life. But we will find that it requires no faith in untestable propositions–Jesus was born of a virgin; the Koran is the word of God–for us to do this.
~ Sam Harris, The End of Faith

To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.
~Chinese proverb

I want to go soon and live away by the pond, where I shall hear only the wind whispering among the reeds. It till be a success if I shall have left myself behind.
~ Henry David Thoreau

I must confess that I don’t have the faintest idea what my purpose is or what’s going on, and I never have. I became comfortable with that mystery a long time ago–that I would never know how any of these things fit together in any explicit way.
~ Gary Snyder

When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time, for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.
~ Montaigne