Top 7 Quotes by Janwillem van de Wetering

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.

Greed, Mouths, Demon

Janwillem Van De Wetering (2003). “Just a Corpse at Twilight”, p.118, Soho Press

What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it and slowly he ripens in this tranquility. For the inner process is beginning to unfold, stillness is extraordinarily important.

Janwillem van de Wetering

Loss, Positivity, Solitude

I had been proud of my awareness, aware of my pride, and proud of that awareness again. It went on like this: How clever I am that I know I am so stupid, how stupid I am to think that I am clever, and how clever I am that I am aware of my stupidity, etc.

Janwillem van de Wetering

Clever, Stupid, Pride

Janwillem van de Wetering (2014). “The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery”, p.131, St. Martin's Griffin

To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing.

Janwillem van de Wetering

Truth, Reality, Easy

Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.

Janwillem van de Wetering

Inspirational, Trying, Achieve

Janwillem van de Wetering (2014). “The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery”, p.142, St. Martin's Griffin

For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or in light of dogma-oriented wisdom.

Janwillem van de Wetering

Book, Men, Light