“Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding ... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy -- and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to "feel it in your bones.” FeelsTryingLongUniverseEnergyUnderstandingSimpleBehindsPracticeClearEventsCreaturesBeatsBonesCuteSensationsMultiplicity Author:Alan Watts
“If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.” IfsMenHateEnergyLeftCreaturesMiserableEaseContemptDespise Book:Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer Source: Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer
“Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.” MenLittlesIdeasSuccessEnergyMistakeHuman NatureYouthCreaturesAmbitionWeightResponsibleWorthyStoresFoolishIgnorantPostsWealthyAmbitiousComes And GoesCreepsRenderingGreat MistakesDestitutePatronageLittle KnowledgeAmbitious Man Book:The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin Source: The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin
“Tempered, gradual animation, the methodical restrain of sensations and energies, the equilibrium of sickness and health in each creature--this is nature's essence, its immutable law, this is what it's based on and what it adheres to.” LawEnergyNatureHealthCreaturesEssenceSicknessSensationsAnimationEquilibriumMethodical Book:Essential Turgenev Source: Essential Turgenev
“Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness between human beings, all creatures, and God. Kindness is a spirituality of solid truth, not shifting emotion; of justice, not occasional philanthropy; of genuine love, not sentimentality or masochism; of evolved adults, not fixated infants.” GivingHumansSpiritualityEnergyLinesJusticeHuman BeingsEmotionKindnessCreaturesAdultsBottomGenuineInteractionPhilanthropyInfantShiftingBottom LineOccasionalSentimentalityInterconnectednessGive And TakeMasochismGenuine Love Author:Jean Maalouf