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Chris Prentiss, born in 1936, is an American author whose works span a variety of genres, including novels, autobiographies, and children's literature. Known for his unique narrative style and profound insights into human nature, Prentiss has gained a wide readership with his diverse body of work.

Famous Chris Prentiss Quotes

“Fasten your mental seatbelt and prepare to expand the boundaries of whatever you have thought about the universe and how it came into being.”

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Book:That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

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“Nothing exists without time, within which everything exists.”

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Book:That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Space and time are bound together. Actually, they are more than bound together. Space and time are both manifestations of Tao’s consciousness.”

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Book:That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“The problem with scientific speculations is that the correct answers to our questions will always elude us as long as we continue using equations to attempt to explain what can only be perceived by the mind using its faculty to perceive input from Tao.”

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Book:That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Our scientists have created many theories, many possibilities about the advent of life, none of which have they been able to prove.”

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Book:That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Just because you cannot see aliveness in a rock does not mean the rock doesn’t have it. The rock is made of atoms. Inside each atom is a furious realm of activity with its neutrons and protons forming a nucleus around which electrons orbit at speeds that can travel around the earth in a little over 18 seconds.”

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Book:That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Space is already fully expanded without boundaries. To imagine otherwise is the same kind of thinking as the concept humans used to have that the world was flat and that if we reached the edge of the world, we would fall off.”

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Book:That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Consciousness is in our stars, our moons, and our stardust. It is in every cell of our developing bodies. The sperm and the egg are conscious.”

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Book:That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Ether is the space within which everything exists, including the space inside a vacuum.”

Spirituality Enlightenment Zen Tao

Book:That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Scientists are looking for a substance to fill all of space, a substance that will permit light to travel as a wave, and a substance that permits gravity to operate between masses. Ether does all that and much more but is undetectable without taking into consideration Tao’s consciousness, which is the answer to all the questions.”

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Book:That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Using only the tools of the physical world to find answers to our questions about life is like trying to unlock a door using a banana instead of a key or like using an equation to understand love or sympathy or a thought about Tao.”

Spirituality Enlightenment Zen Tao

Book:That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“I believe that neutrinos impart maintenance of life and healing to us and that they supply energy to us, to our planet, and to everything else in our Taoverse.”

Spirituality Enlightenment Zen Tao

Book:That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

Source: That Was Zen, This Is Tao: Living Your Way to Enlightenment, Illustrated Edition

“Again, all of life presents us with two basic ways to treat events. We can either label them "god for us" or "bad for us." The event is only an event. It's how we treat the event that determines what it becomes in our lives. The event doesn't make that determination- we do.”

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“Zen is a journey of exploration and a way of living that, in and of itself, does not belong to any one religion or tradition. It is about experiencing life in the here and now and about removing the dualistic distinctions between "I" and "you" between "subject" and "objective", between our spiritual and our ordinary, everyday activities.”

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“Your actions create an "energy vortex" that draws in the necessary ingredients for your venture.”

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“A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains us daily in everything we think and do. It gives us optimism and hope.”

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