"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."

-- Alan Watts

#Writing Quotes #Study Quotes #Paradox Quotes

“So much of the trouble is because I am a woman. To me it seems a very terrible thing to be a woman. There is one crown which perhaps is worth it all--a great love, a quiet home, and children. We all know that is all that is worthwhile, and yet we must peg away, showing off our wares on the market if we have money, or manufacturing careers for ourselves if we haven't.”
“She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.”
“We walk by faith. We don't stay still, drowning in our misery.”

Source : Jentezen Franklin (2011). “Fasting”, p.125, Charisma Media
“I could not help feeling that they were evil things-- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. That seething , half-luminous cloud-background held ineffable suggestions of a vague, ethereal beyondness far more than terrestrially spatial; and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness, separateness, desolation, and aeon-long death of this untrodden and unfathomed austral world.”
“You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.”
“People are the quintessential element in all technology... Once we recognize the inescapable human nexus of all technology our attitude toward the reliability problem is fundamentally changed.”
“As a twin, I operate with twin desires.”
“Keep to the ancient way and custom of the Church, established and confirmed by so many Saints under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. And live a new life. Pray, and get others to pray, that God not abandon His Church, but reform it as He pleases, and as He sees best for us, and more to His honor and glory.”

You may also like:

Carl Jung
Psychiatrist
D.T. Suzuki
Author
Jean Burden
Poet
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Writer
Joseph Campbell
Writer
Ram Dass
Teacher
Robert Anton Wilson
Author
Terence McKenna
Philosopher
Timothy Leary
Psychologist