If you bring out what is inside of you, what is inside you will save you. If you fail to bring out what is inside you, what is inside you will destroy you. The Gnostic Gospels   “This quote touches me because it’s at the center of the work of…

We should understand ourselves in two ways, as a person, and as something which has no name, or body, or mind. Shunryu Suzuki Roshi from Zen Mind, Beginners Mind “To understand ourselves in this way is liberation from ourself and true understanding of ourselves. When we say ‘things as it…

I do not know if there are enlightened beings but I am sure that there are enlightened moments. Suzuki Roshi (1904-1971) Sōtō Zen monk and teacher who helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States   Think not lightly of good, saying it will not come to me. Drop by…

We are the empathy app. Sherry Turkle author of Reclaiming Conversation “This is one of my favorite quotes. Sherry Turkle has been studying the human interaction with technology for decades. It’s easy to lose ourselves in the amazing and challenging aspects of technology today. Sherry is not anti-technology; she’s pro-conversation.…

If there’s a solution to the problem, what’s the point of worrying? If there’s no solution to the problem, what’s the point of worrying? 6th century Buddhist sage Shantideva “I don’t have a tattoo but if I ever get one, that’ll probably be it. What does it help to worry?…

I’m Coming Home From My Wings [ich komme aus meinen schwingen heim] I come home from the soaring in which I lost myself. I was song, and the refrain which is God is still roaring in my ears. Now I am still and plain: no more words. To the others…

As the bonfires of knowledge glow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes. Terrence McKenna, American ethnobotanist, mystic, and psychonaut   “When I first heard this, which I think was actually on New Dimensions Radio, I liked the poetic sound of it. But the more I thought…

For me, the art of life is learning to let what is awake in me touch and be touched by what is awake in the other rather than letting what is asleep in me be annoyed by what is asleep In the other. Alia Johnson (1948-2010) teacher of the Diamond…

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. Helen Keller (1880-1968), An American author, disability rights…

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it’s over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to…