Mahomets Quotes & Sayings

Indeed, whoever imagines he has explained Zen has in fact only explained it away; it can no more be bound by a definition than the wind can be shut in a box without ceasing to be wind. Thus any attempt to write on Zen may seem an absurdity from the beginning, but that is only so if either reader or writer imagines that Zen can be contained in a set of ideas. A book about London is in no sense London itself, and no sane person would dream of thinking that it is. Yet apparently intelligent people often make the equally ridiculous mistake of identifying a philosophical system, a dogma, a creed, with Ultimate Truth, imagining that they have found that Truth embraced in a set of propositions which appeals to their reason. There — Alan W. Watts

When you meet anyone, treat the even as a holy encounter. — Wayne Dyer

The stillness of October gold
Went out like beauty from a face. — Edwin Arlington Robinson

She's around here somewhere. Check your pockets. She could be there. Sometimes she falls into these cracks between the floorboards. — Maggie Stiefvater

Some people think we're adrift without any guidelines. I don't. I think we've had instruction on how to live. — Jon Voight