Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.
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Jalaluddin Rumi
The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion.
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Alan W. Watts
Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.
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Ray Bradbury
Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar
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Jim Butcher
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
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Bob Dylan
More Quotes By Francis Harold Cook
Activities such as chanting, bowing, and sitting in zazen are not at all wasted, even when done merely formally, for even this superficial encounter with the Dharma will have some wholesome outcome at a later time. However, it must be said in the most unambiguous...
The object of Zen is not to kill all feelings and become anesthetized to pain and fear. The object of Zen is to free us to scream loudly and fully when it is time to scream.
Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest? When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves.
The prospect of future lives in remote heavens as a compensation for the inadequacy of our present lives is a bad tradeoff for losing out on the present.
The Buddha is found in other people - even the ones we do not like very much.
