Quotes - Caleb Krugman (calebkrugman) (Grand Rapids, MI) Showing 1-30 of 193

#1

“For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

tags: zen

58 likes

#2

“Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.”
― Epictetus, The Discourses

104 likes

#3

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

tags: dune

2578 likes

#4

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

tags: dharma, simplicity, writing

8465 likes

#5

“I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

tags: self-consciousness

36 likes

#6

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: attitude, distress, mind-over-body, pain, stoicism

2647 likes

#7

“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Lao Tsu, Tao Teh Ching

tags: philosophy, wayfinding

3481 likes

#8

“The centipede was happy, quite, Until a toad in fun Said, “Pray, which leg goes after which?” This worked his mind to such a pitch, He lay distracted in a ditch, Considering how to run.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Way of Zen

42 likes

#9

“For if we open our eyes and see clearly, it becomes obvious that there is no other time than this instant, and that the past and the future are abstractions without any concrete reality.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

tags: zen-buddhism

22 likes

#10

“Attachment to the false view of self means belief in the presence of unchanging entities which exist on their own. To break through this false view is to be liberated from every sort of fear, pain, and anxiety.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation

7 likes

#11

“To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

23 likes

#12

“If a man seeks the Buddha, that man loses the Buddha.”
― Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

11 likes

#13

“[A] certain amount of "sitting just to sit" might well be the best thing in the world for the jittery minds and agitated bodies [...].”
― Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

10 likes

#14

“We feel that our actions are voluntary when they follow a decision and involuntary when they happen without decision. But if a decision itself were voluntary every decision would have to be preceded by a decision to decide - An infinite regression which fortunately does not occur. Oddly enough, if we had to decide to decide, we would not be free to decide”
― Alan Wilson Watts, The Way of Zen

94 likes

#15

“For three years,’ says Kirilov, ‘I sought the attribute of my divinity and I have found it. The attribute of my divinity is independence.’ Now can be seen the meaning of Kirilov’s premiss: ‘If God does not exist, I am god.’ To become god is merely to be free on this earth, not to serve an immortal being.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

14 likes

#16

“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

442 likes

#17

“The silence was an intense roar.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

111 likes

#18

“I felt free and therefore I was free.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

68 likes

#19

“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: earth, heaven, heavenly, nature

830 likes

#20

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: afford, let-alone, natural, rich, wealth

698 likes

#21

“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality”
― Lucius Annaeus Seneca

1282 likes

#22

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: conformity, fashion, generation

641 likes

#23

“Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

143 likes

#24

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
― Henry David Thoreau

1567 likes

#25

“It is desirable that a man be clad so simply that he can lay his hands on himself in the dark, and that he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

tags: empty-handed, simple, simple-life, simple-living, simplicity

91 likes

#26

“Confucius said, "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

82 likes

#27

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength

6026 likes

#28

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: happiness

4281 likes

#29

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

tags: truth