“In the same way your life is the continuity of standing up, sitting down, laughing, sleeping, waking up, drinking, eating, and, of course, being born and dying. That is the continuity of the whole universe.” WayWholeLife IsUniverseCoursesBornSleepLaughingDyingEatingSittingStandingWake UpDrinkingWakingContinuitySitting Down Book:The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans Source: The Gateless Gate: The Classic Book of Zen Koans
“Neither antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe.” ChristianUniverseNationsEatingTreatsAbsurdityAntiquity Author:Frederick The Great
“On one planet [earth], and possibly only one planet in the entire universe, molecules that would normally make nothing more complicated than a chunk of rock, gather themselves together into chunks of rock-sized matter of such staggering complexity that they are capable of running, jumping, swimming, flying, seeing, hearing, capturing and eating other such animated chunks of complexity; capable in some cases of thinking and feeling, and falling in love with yet other chunks of complex matter.” ThinkingMatterFeelingsRunningEarthTogetherFallUniverseCasesSeeingRocksPlanetsEatingCapableComplexesFalling In LoveComplicatedHearingFlyingComplexitySwimmingJumpingAnimatedMoleculesPlanet EarthChunksStaggering Author:Richard Dawkins
“Say So'ham, So'ham whatever comes. Tell yourself this even in eating, walking, suffering. Tell the mind this incessantly-that what we see never existed, that there is only I. Flash-the dream will break! Think day and night, this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free.” ThinkingMindDreamDesireNightSufferingUniverseBreakWalkingEatingIntenseZeroFlashDay And NightHamIncessantly Author:Swami Vivekananda
“In the 1980s, I was working to reform the schools in Arkansas. Donald Trump was borrowing $14 million from his father to start his businesses. In the 1990s, I went to Beijing and I said women's rights are human rights. He insulted a former Miss Universe, Alicia Machado, called her an eating machine.” HumansSaidSchoolUniverseFatherMillionsRightsMissingTrumpEatingMachinesHuman RightsFormerReformWomens RightsBorrowingInsultedArkansasBeijing Author:Hillary Clinton
“Each time you look at a tangerine, you can see deeply into it. You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine. When you peel it and smell it, it’s wonderful. You can take your time eating a tangerine and be very happy.” LooksHappinessUniverseWonderfulEatingSmellVery HappyTake Your TimeTangerines Book:Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life Source: Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life