“To choose not to choose is still a choice for which you alone are responsible.”
― How to Be an Existentialist: or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses
― How to Be an Existentialist: or How to Get Real, Get a Grip and Stop Making Excuses
“I examined my Liberalism and found it like an addiction to roulette. Here, though the odds are plain, and the certainty of loss apparent to anyone with a knowledge of arithmetic, the addict, failing time and again, is convinced he yet is graced with the power to contravene natural laws. The roulette addict, when he invariably comes to grief, does not examine either the nature of roulette, or of his delusion, but retires to develop a new system, and to scheme for more funds.”
― The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
― The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
“In the midst of beings as a whole an open place occurs. There is a clearing, a lighting... Only this clearing grants and guarantees to us humans a passage to those beings that we ourselves are not, and access to the being that we ourselves are.”
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“Prayer makes coffee shops of our souls, places that celebrate and savor the presence and lordship of God in our lives. It must be unceasing and constant. It must become who we are.”
― Mud & Poetry: Love, Sex, and the Sacred
― Mud & Poetry: Love, Sex, and the Sacred
“When all things return to the One, even gold loses its value. But when the One returns to all things, even the pebbles sparkle.”
― The Golden Age of Zen
― The Golden Age of Zen
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