T. McLeod > T.'s Quotes

“There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.”
― T. Scott McLeod

“The only cure for love, is love.”
― T. Scott McLeod

“Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.”
― T. Scott McLeod

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

“There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.”
― Joe Klaas, The Twelve Steps to Happiness: A Practical Handbook for Understanding and Working the Twelve Step Programs for Alcoholism, Codependency, Eating Disorders, and Other Addictions

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“You just do it, then if you die, you die.”
― T. Scott McLeod, The Light In The Darkness

“You had to break, to be unbroken. In the brokenness, I had found, that which was unbroken. That which was perfect, and beautiful, and complete.”
― T. Scott McLeod, The Light In The Darkness

“This would be a secret that I would carry with me, until the day I died.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Stand in your own two shoes.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“We come to the end of suffering, through suffering.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“If it is going to kill you,” Enso Roshi says, “then let it kill you.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“To love one’s self, this is the greatest challenge we are all called to face.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“When you love yourself, utterly and completely, all of yourself, what you will discover then is that you love others, all others, utterly and completely.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more judging.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Nothing needs to be done, and things get done.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“I loved Enso Roshi’s teachings. I loved learning about life. I loved life. It was a good thing to feel. I loved life, and I loved learning, and I was still learning. I was not, yet, done. At the end of our journeys, there would be an end to the journey. Maybe. If I was lucky. If providence shone down upon me gently. I would find love. I would find acceptance. Complete love. Complete acceptance. I would know, that the self, is an illusion. I would come to enlightenment, but that would also mean, there would be no ‘I’ there. I would realize that the ‘I’ was an illusion, all along, just like some great dream. This is what the wise sages say, the great teachings, the mystical teachings, not only from the East, but also from the West. The Gospel of Saint Thomas. Thomas Merton. Thomas, like I was Thomas, and also doubting, the main reasons I’d chosen the name. If nothing else, it was lovable, just as it is. My life. Even the parts I didn’t love, could I love them? The struggles. It was all part of the journey, and would I not look back fondly on this, at some time? Look at how arduous and sincere I’d been. Look at how worried I’d been. Look at how insecure I’d been. Look at how I’d struggled. Trying to find my way. Would I not look back upon myself, affectionately and fondly and with love?”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“I don’t know where I’m going on this path. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. You had to be lost, before you could be found. These are the truths. You had to be confused, before you could find clarity; you had to suffer, before you could find peace. These were the only ways, life could happen. Of course you were confused before you found clarity. If you weren't confused, then you would already be clear. Of course you were lost before you were found. If you were already found, then you wouldn't be lost. Of course there would be suffering before peace. If there was already peace, then there wouldn't be suffering. One necessarily came before the other.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Do you want love, or do you want control?”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“The mind is limitless, in its creations.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Is it love, or is it attachment? Do you want to love her, or do you want to control her?”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Why hold secrets? Why harbor anything? Let me just share everything with you. Let me just talk. Let me let go of the censor that is within me ... I’m tired of trying to be someone other than who I am.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken