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35 quotes
British American author and lecturer (1915–1973)
“For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.”
"In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself."
on Perception
"There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said."
on Art
"You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself."
on Philosophy
"For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere."
on Mindfulness
"Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way."
on Problem Solving
"To "know" reality you cannot stand outside it and define it; you must enter into it, be it, and feel it."
"The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion."
on Love
"One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt."
on Anxiety
"You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean."
"You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing."
"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."
on Time
"It is hard indeed to notice anything for which the languages available to us have no description."
on Language
"Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present."
"Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them."
"The menu is not the meal."
"When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of … Nothing is left but to love."
on Fear
"Discord on one level is harmony on another"
"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
on Life
"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone."
on Wisdom
"The brush must draw by itself. This cannot happen if one does not practice constantly. But neither can it happen if one makes an effort."
