Badr Eddine > Badr's Quotes

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
― Zora Neale Hurston

“Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.”
― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?

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― Jacques Lacan

“The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.”
― Jacques Lacan, The Seminar of Jacques Lacan: Book 1, Freud's Papers on Technique, 1953-1954

“هناك من لا يستطيع أن يلهو إلا وهو في قطيع ..البطل الحقيقي يلهو وحيدا”
― شارل بودلير

“Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?”
― Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, Zen and Japanese Culture

“The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.”
― D.T. Suzuki

“The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.”
― Andre Dubus III, House of Sand and Fog

“If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”
― Dogen

“A fool sees himself as another, but a wise man sees others as himself.”
― Dōgen, How to Cook Your Life: From the Zen Kitchen to Enlightenment

“In Buddhist writings, mention is often made of “the abyss of birth." An abyss indeed, a gulf into which we do not fall but from which, instead, we emerge, to our universal chagrin.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“ليس الزهد هو فراغ اليد من الدنيا وإنما الزهد هو فراغ القلب من الدنيا”
― أحمد بهجت, بحار الحب عند الصوفية