"The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now."

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Source : James H. Austin (1999). “Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness”, p.19, MIT Press

James H. Austin

#Everyday Quotes #Messages Quotes #Moments Quotes

“I don't know if I'll ever do it again or not, but frankly I don't really care.”
“Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway.”
“In order to cooperate in the material worlds as agents of a divine power, the spirits temporarily have a material body. By the work required in their corporeal lives, the spirits improve their intelligence and, by observing God's law, they acquire the merits which will lead them to eternal happiness.”
“The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.”
“If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.”

Source : Newsweek interview, July 08, 1991.
“And the vagueness of his alarm added to its terrors; when once you have taken the Impossible into your calculations its possibilities become practically limitless.”
“I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.”
“I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller.”

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