Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.
When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.
The biggest ego trip is getting rid of your ego, and of course the joke of it all is that your ego does not exist.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Once you've learned to think you can't stop. And an enormous number of people devote their lives to keeping their minds busy and feel extremely uncomfortable with silence.
When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.
You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.
It is the seeker, who understands there is more than what meets the eye, who is not afraid and makes the choice to go into the unknown. The process of awaking has begun, the discovery is underway.
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.
Try to imagine what it will be like to go to sleep and never wake up... now try to imagine what it was like to wake up having never gone to sleep.
Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.
Enjoyment is an art and a skill for which we have little talent or energy... your entire education has has deprived you of this capacity because it was preparing you for the future, instead of showing you how to be alive now.
Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment.
The power of memories and expectations is such that for most human beings, the past and the future are not as real, but rather more real than the present.
Ego is a social institution with no physical reality. The ego is simply your symbol of yourself. Just as the word “water” is a noise that symbolizes a certain liquid without being it, so too the idea of ego symbolizes the role you play, who you are, but it is not the same as your living organism.
There is a deep, peaceful calm in the dawning of a new day.
The difference between a baby and adult is that a baby believes in everything while the adult doubts everything. Babies also only tell the truth until they learn what a lie is.
There is only this now. It does not come from anywhere; it is not going anywhere. It is not permanent, but it is not impermanent. Though moving, it is always still. When we try to catch it, it seems to run away, and yet it is always here and there is no escape from it. And when we turn around to find the self which knows this moment, we find that it has vanished like the past.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.
In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life.
this present moment never comes to be and it never ceases to be, it is simply our minds that construct the continuity of thoughts we call time. In the present moment is nirvana.
Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.
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