Buddhism Quotes - Page 83

We are intelligent atoms. We are intelligent organic structures. We can change who we are. We can heal ourselves. With genetic engineering, we are considering changing the physiological structure of the body.

Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

Language is the medium of our thoughts.

Thoughts can increase our understanding of a subject, or they can just as easily constrict or block our understanding of a subject. It very much depends upon the language we are thinking in.

Words are inaccurate pointers to reality and should by no means be trusted.

Nothing is distinct and separate.

I would suggest to you that at this moment you are the only self that you have ever had; you've never had a childhood; there wasn't a five-minute-ago time.

Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.

Time is a convenient filing system human beings have devised to segregate their experiences.

There is no time. There is no space. There is no condition. There is only awareness, awareness of these ideas.

There is only eternity. That's our real body. The stars are our blanket. Time doesn't even exist, except in our own minds.

To think the universe is only composed of the physical universe is to be rather shortsighted.

The body is a very low level machine language. The language of the soul, of the mind, is much more evolved.

Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better.

The world glows all the time. All of the things that you have come to understand aren't. The greatest thinkers in the world see very little compared to the enlightened.

In reality, as any physicist will tell you, the physical world is made up of moving energy. All matter is energy.

A categorization implies a hierarchical way of seeing things. Life is really relational, not hierarchical. Hierarchical is a human way of looking at things. Relational is much more the way things are. Everything is connected.

One function of the intellect is to catalog. But cataloging doesn't change anything. If we call it a rose, or by any other name, it still smells as sweet. The name doesn't really matter. It is convenient for us.

Life is not dependent upon our classifications and our categories, our science. But we are. We find it interesting and helpful.

Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes."

You can live in the world and have friends, family and possessions. But don't take them all too seriously. Death removes everything. Feel death is every moment, as life is every moment.

There are millions of little opportunities out there to advance yourself. But you need the personal power to see how to do it.

It's certainly easy to meditate on top of a mountain, but one should be also able to meditate in the heart of the city.

I feel that there's a certain danger in always being in a lovely rural setting. You can lose touch.

Ideally, you would live in an area that is not necessarily in the middle of the country, out in the woods, because you can isolate yourself there and get stuck in your own thoughts.