"How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?"

-- John Steinbeck

#Past Quotes #Our Past Quotes

“The primordial fire of reality is going to burn through the hull of our little ego spaceship, and scatter us like stars.”
“Intellection must address the matter of its feeling.”
“One of the challenges, I think, is that Americans are not sufficiently vested in foreign policy.”

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“There are 3 kinds of magic in our world. The peddling little magician magic like Uncle Andrew in 'The Magicians Newphew' where people mess around with things they don't understand. It's movie magic. Then there is the magic of the evil side of things. The demonic forces. And that's not really magic... it's corruption of what really exists. And then finally there is the magic of the Holy Spirit of God which is the creation and maintenence of the universe. We don't understand it... and we haven't the faintest idea how He does it. But it's real. That's the deep magic.”
“I think you have different soulmates throughout your life.”
“When mortals are alive, they worry about death. When they're full, they worry about hunger. Theirs is the Great Uncertainty. But sages don't consider the past. And they don't worry about the future. Nor do they cling to the present. And from moment to moment they follow the Way.”

Source : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.75, Macmillan
“Some reviewers have read this as cynicism but I don't see it that way. When I say "I am so sick / of pretending to be me," it's exhaustion at the everyday performance, in life, in art, even in our most intimate encounters.”
“Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.”

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