David Fontana famous quotes

Consider your own place in the universal oneness of which we are all a part, from which we all arise, and to which we all return.
-- David Fontana

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Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.
-- David Fontana

#Happiness #Looks #Alive

All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.
-- David Fontana

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Pilgrimages of mind or walking meditation - bringing moments of illumination in which the sense of relationship to the rest of existence suddenly stands out with startling and unexpected clarity.
-- David Fontana

#Illumination #Meditation #Mind

The mind is still there even when thoughts are not...
-- David Fontana

#Mind #Stills

We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been so many movements and ideas struggling to attract our attention. Added to this, the Western world is swamped by material goods and the Western mind is dominated by the goal of material success. In all this confusion, Zen stands out as a voice of sanity. It represents a different way of seeing the world, one based upon the rediscovery of who we really are and have always been, through revealing to us our true nature.
-- David Fontana

#Struggle #Ideas #Voice

Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural, spontaneous encounter, unclouded by the suppositions and expectations that come between us and reality. It is, if you like, a paring down of life until we see it as it really is, free from our illusions; it is merely a divestment of ourselves until we recognize our own true nature.
-- David Fontana

#Reality #Essence #Expectations

In their pure form, the martial arts demand the intense awareness of the meditative mind, and have nothing to do with anger or wanton aggression. A practitioner is taught from the outset that the skills must never be used for personal gain, but only in self-defence or in the protection of others -- and even then only enough force as is absolutely necessary should be used.
-- David Fontana

#Art #Skills #Self

The many faces of Collective Vision united by the mandalic eye-field suggest both expansion of consciousness and sharing of consciousness with other beings. The painting was based on a profoundly ego dissolving entheogenic mystical trance where I heard the words, 'Infinite Oneness... the Oneness should never forget the Infinitude and the Infinitude should never forget the Oneness...'

Sacred love is selfless, seeking not its own. The lover serves his beloved and seeks perfect communion of oneness with her.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

That's love, giving everything, sacrificing all without hope of return.

Ashes to ashes. Dust to dust. We are nothing, but dust and to dust we shall return. Amen.

Seeing that my words had done absolutely nothing to pull North from whatever depths he was clinging to, Owain did what came naturally. He smacked North upside the head hard enough to send him sprawling into the window. And when it seemed that North would turn around and return the favor, Owain hit him again, harder.

You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return.

Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.

Half our fears arise from neglect of the Bible.

Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without us.