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Post by quinn on Jul 9, 2015 6:45:06 GMT -5
Ran across some quotes and notes that I enjoyed, so I'm posting them. Add any you find that tickle your fancy.
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Post by quinn on Jul 9, 2015 6:47:01 GMT -5
I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze, and I won't know what to say.
Ronnie Shakes
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Post by quinn on Jul 9, 2015 6:51:57 GMT -5
My cats, Franny and Zooey, are sitting still, listening to the rain. When was the last time I sat still, just listening to the world around me? Not writing. Not reading. Not taking America apart and trying to put it back together, or turning on the computer and getting tangled in the worldwide web like a dolphin in a fishing net. Instead of getting up to see if that's Norma's car coming down the road, I can just sit here and listen to the sound of tires on gravel; to water dripping from the drain spout; to my own steady breathing. If I listen closely, really closely, who knows what I'll hear? Maybe the spinning of the Earth or the music of the spheres or the echo of the Big Bang. Maybe God.
Sy Safranski's Notebook
(from this month's issue of The Sun magazine)
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Post by quinn on Jul 9, 2015 6:53:55 GMT -5
The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known.
Frank Herbert
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2015 13:50:18 GMT -5
I fear one day I'll meet God, he'll sneeze, and I won't know what to say. Ronnie Shakes Ahh, that's quite gorgeous.  |
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Post by zin on Jul 10, 2015 16:06:03 GMT -5
Your lamp was lit from another lamp. / All God wants is your gratitude for that. Rumi
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Post by laughter on Jul 11, 2015 2:35:14 GMT -5
The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known. Frank Herbert The dude that wrote Dune? |
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Post by quinn on Jul 11, 2015 7:38:39 GMT -5
The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known. Frank Herbert The dude that wrote Dune? I assume so. That was my favorite book in my 20's! Only really liked the first one of the trilogy though. |
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jul 19, 2015 11:36:12 GMT -5
To doubt and yet to live--this is a paradox, though not a tragic one, since doubt is less intense, less consuming than despair. Abstract doubt, in which one participates only partially, is more frequent, whereas in despair one participates totally and organically. Not even the most organic and serious forms of doubt ever reach the intensity of despair. In comparison with despair, skepticism is characterized by a certain amount of dilettantism and superficiality. I can doubt everything (except death), I may very well smile contemptuously at the world, but this will not prevent me from eating, from sleeping peacefully, and from marrying. In despair, whose depth one can fathom only by experiencing it, such actions are possible only with great effort. On the heights of despair, nobody has the right to sleep. Thus a genuinely desperate man cannot forget his own tragedy: his consciousness preserves the painful actuality of his subjective torment. Doubt is anxiety about problems and things, and has its origins in the unsolvable nature of all big questions. If such questions could be solved, the skeptic would revert to more normal states. The condition of the more desperate man in this respect is utterly different: if all problems were solved, he would not be any less anxious, since his anxiety arises out of his own subjective existence. Despair is the state in which anxiety and restlessness are immanent to existence. Nobody in despair suffers from "problems", but from his own inner torment and fire.
EM Cioran, On the Heights of Despair, originally 1934, English translation 1992
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2015 12:31:57 GMT -5
"But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow. But the ultimate potentiation of every passion is always to will its own downfall, and so it is also the ultimate passion of the understanding to will the collision, although in one way or another the collision must become its downfall. This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think."
~ Søren Kierkegaard, in the Philosophical Fragments.
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Post by stardustpilgrim on Jul 24, 2015 17:49:24 GMT -5
"But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow. But the ultimate potentiation of every passion is always to will its own downfall, and so it is also the ultimate passion of the understanding to will the collision, although in one way or another the collision must become its downfall. This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think." ~ Søren Kierkegaard, in the Philosophical Fragments. Cool. (Yes, Kierkegaard). |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2015 13:47:08 GMT -5
"That the self advances and confirms the ten thousand things is called delusion.
That the ten thousand things advance and confirm the self is enlightenment."
~ Dōgen Zenji
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Post by maxdprophet on Oct 9, 2015 9:08:12 GMT -5
" These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Ye all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep." ~ Prosepero in The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1, Before Prospero's cell. |
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Post by maxdprophet on Oct 9, 2015 9:22:32 GMT -5
"The soul in which this birth is to take place must keep absolutely pure and must live in noble fashion, quite collected, and turned entirely inward: not running out through the five senses into the multiplicity of creatures, but all inturned and collected and in the purest part: there is His place; He disdains anything else." "Though it may be called a nescience, and unknowing, yet there is in it more than all knowing and understanding without it; for this unknowing lures and attracts you from all understood things, and from yourself as well. " "Since it is God's nature not to be like anyone, we have to come to the state of being nothing in order to enter into the same nature that He is." "So, when I am able to establish myself in nothing, and nothing in myself, uprooting and casting out what is in me, then I can pass into the naked being of God, which is the naked being of the Spirit." "It is a certain and necessary truth that he who resigns his will wholly to God will catch God and bind God, so that God can do nothing but what that man wills ." "For he alone is a good man who, having set at nought all created things, stands facing straight, with no side-glances, towards the eternal Word, and is imaged and reflected there in righteousness. " ~ Meister Eckhart=========== In the last quote, what is "the eternal Word"? One angle. Also.... In the beginning was the Word. The 'eternal Word' is synonymous with Logos. Basically, God's plan. There's God, and then there's what God wants. That's 'the Eternal Word.' Right now, I'm thinking of it as similar to Ramana Maharshi's 'I thought' which stems from Self. Definition of NESCIENCE: lack of knowledge or awareness : ignorance |
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Post by maxdprophet on Oct 9, 2015 12:06:45 GMT -5
“The reality given to the mind is to be destroyed by knowing the invariable Atma manifest in all thoughts. Atma is not covered by thoughts. Wave does not cover water; in wave itself, we see water. The wave need not subside for us to see the water; in wave itself, we see water. There is no covering at all. Atma cannot be covered by anything except by ignorance. It is always manifest. I am awareness, always free from thoughts, in spite of thinking. This is the darshana of the one self. What is real is always one, one alone is real. This knowledge destroys the old silly mind that stood against me. Thinking continues but it is known as mithya, apparent and so, it is as good as nonexistent. One’s shadow is not a problem. Mithya is not a problem – it is useful; mind is useful and that is all there is to it.” (Swami Dayananda, Talks on Upadesa Saram, p 78-80 and The Teaching Tradition of Vedanta, p 11-12) |
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