Suzanne Segal famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's the same with all the thoughts and feelings and other experiences that arise in the ocean of ourselves. The ocean never resists them, it never creates a negative reference point saying "Damn , that seaweed is still there. There must be something terribly wrong with me". When they arise, the ocean just sees them for what they are and they pass away naturally.
-- Suzanne Segal

#Ocean #Feelings #Passing Away
To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself.
-- Suzanne Segal

#Eye #Vastness #Awareness
Collision with the Infinite: A Life Beyond the Personal Self
-- Suzanne Segal

#Self #Infinite #Collision
Suffering occurs when something is taken for what it's not , rather than for what it is.
-- Suzanne Segal

#Taken #Suffering
When asked Who I Am, the only answer possible is: I am the infinite, the vastness that is the substance of all things. I am no one and everyone, nothing and everything -- just as you are.
-- Suzanne Segal

#Who I Am #Answers #Vastness
These eyes see the incredible benevolence of the universe, which is completely trustworthy in all respects. There is nothing to fear. Everything in each moment is so well taken care of - and always has been.
-- Suzanne Segal

#Taken #Eye #Care
I moved down the street like a cloud of awareness following a body that seemed simultaneously familiar and foreign. There was an incomprehensible attachment to that body, although it no longer felt like "mine". It continued to send out signals of its sensory perception, yet how or where those signals wwere being received was beyond comprehension.
-- Suzanne Segal

#Attachment #Clouds #Perception
Instead of experiencing through the physical senses, I was now bobbing behind the body like a buoy at sea, cut loose from sensory solidity, separated from and witnessing the body from a vast distance.
-- Suzanne Segal

#Distance #Cutting #Sea
I lifted my right foot to step up into the bus and collided head on with an invisible force that entered my awareness like a silently exploding stick of dynamite blowing the door of my usual consciousness open and off its hinges, splitting me in two. In the gaping space that appeared, what I had previously called "me" was forcefully pushed out of its usual location inside me into a new location that was approximately a foot behind and to the left of my head. "I" was now behind my body, looking out at the world without using the body's eyes.
-- Suzanne Segal

#Eye #Doors #Two

The open ocean often takes you past your physical limits and when it does, sailing becomes a mental game.
We hail the return of the day of thy birth, Fair Columbia! washed by the waves of two oceans Where men from the farthest dominions of earth Rear altars to Freedom, and pay their devotions; Where our fathers in fight, nobly strove for the Right, Struck down their fierce foemen or put them to flight; Through the long lapse of ages, that so there might be An asylum for all in the Land of the Free.
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
I had fought on behalf of man against the sea, but I realized that it had become more urgent to fight on behalf of the sea against men.
You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
Time is that in which all things pass away.
Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.
The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.
It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,'? says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good times pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of times, like the best, are always passing away.
In the days of Joseph [Smith] it was considered a great privilege to be permitted to speak to a member of Congress, but twenty-six years will not pass away before the Elders of this Church will be as much thought of as the kings on their thrones.

Suzanne Segal famous quotes

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