WORDS OF SPIRITUAL TEACHERS
Change
is synonymous with life.
(Buddha's Philosophy)
Just
when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the
same as I began.
(Hugh Prather)
You
humans cling to the known. You even expect one another to always be the same,
instead of realizing that you are creatures different from what you were in the
last second of time, and that you have infinite possibilities to be still more
different.
(Dorothy
McClean)
There
is a contradiction in us, there is in us a constant state of denial and
assertion – what we want to be and what we are. There is a lack of peace in us
and therefore outside us. There is constant denial of one desire by another
desire. If we regard life not as a permanent desire but as a series of
temporary desires which are constantly changing, then there is no
contradiction. When the mind does not regard all desires as moving, transient,
but seizes upon one desire and makes that into a permanency – only then, when
other desires arise, is there a contradiction.
(J.
Krishnamurti)
There
is nothing stable in worlds of the one who forever expresses life and love in
an outgoing manner. How then can anything stay as it was.
(Dorothy
McClean)
Existence
is beyond the power of words. To define terms may be used but are none of them
absolute.
(Lao
Tzu)
We
crave to find permanent security in something distinct from and unrelated to
ourselves. But no lasting security can be found however much we manipulate the
external elements of the world.
(Stephen
Batchelor)
In
all Chinese art, there’s not symmetry. There’s not complete balance between two
sides of the painting, because the moment you have symmetry you have something
static.
(Alan
Watts)
The
clouds above us join and separate
The
breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns
Life
is like that, so why not relax
Who
can stop us from celebrating?
(Benjamin
Hoff)
There
is only a moment, an instant of flame. There is only this moment. And actually,
you, who come in at the door are not the same people who are sitting here. Just
as in the whirlpool of water – there is no constant water. There is only going
on a continuous behavior, whirling in the water – but no water stays in it. So,
in exactly the same way you who came into the door a few minutes ago, and are
now sitting here, are entirely different, only you are clinging to the idea of
your continuity.
(Alan
Watts)
