From Alan Watts: “Much of the secret of life consists in knowing how to laugh, and also how to breathe.”
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Quote of the day 05/14/24
From Alan Watts: “Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present
Quote of the day 05/12/24
From Alan Watts: “I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.”
Quote of the day 05/07/24
From Dogen: “Although we say mountains belong to the country, actually, they belong to those that love them.”
05/06/24
From Dogen: “Beings, things, and events do not exist in time: beings, things, and events are times.”
Waiting
I find there to be a kind of liberty in waiting. To be imprisoned in time. Finally an excuse for inaction.
Quote of the day 05/03/24
From Dogen: “So our practice is not to eliminate our delusion, but to see or to become aware of the fact that we are deluded. Just become aware of it and let go of it. Do not be pulled by the delusions.”
Quote of the day 04/30/24
From Dogen: “Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”
Quote of the day 04/27/24
From Dogen: “Your body is like a dew-drop on the morning grass, your life is as brief as a flash of lightning. Momentary and vain, it is lost in a moment.”
Quote of the day 04/23/24
From William Faulkner: “Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.”
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