#philosophy

"I do not think that tragedy is our natural fate and I do not live in chronic dread of disaster. It is no happiness, but suffering that I consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that I regard as the abnormal exception in Human Life."

"We can solve all problems not by finding solutions, but by transcending consciousness to a new level."

"Time is Not a Constant [10w] Time speeds up, crawls, compresses and expands depending on mood."

"Free Lunch There's no such thing as a free lunch ~for people who haven't yet learned to beat the system ;)"

"... is it truly possible to steal a life, if... the Self is eternal and cannot die? Should this be so, then one who 'murders' does no more than transgress against the will of another, whose choice it is to live. At bottom, a murderer offends not against the body, but against the spirit."

"A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"Suzuki Roshi replied, "No reason."

"When we die, as when the scenes have been fixed on to celluloid and the scenery is pulled down and burnt — we are phantoms in the memories of our descendants. Then we are ghosts, my dear, then we are myths. But still we are together. We are the past together, we are a distant past. Beneath the dome of the mysterious stars, I still hear your voice."

"Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well...."

"Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides."

"True love perceives no impossibilities."

"A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know."

"If your dreams seem to be drifting away, wake up!"

"The maturity of man—that means, to have reacquired the seriousness that one had as a child at play"

"Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."

"Me vs. Me Only the practice of empathy and gratitudecan make the opaque ego transparent to receivethe loving light emanating from your soul.Hate and selfishness will always leave you'in the shadow."

"I’m not superstitious. I’m a witch. Witches aren’t superstitious. We are what people are superstitious of."

"the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger."

"One must reach out and try to grasp this astonishing finesse, that the value of lif cannot be estimated."

"Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe."

"The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time."