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“Obtaining no Dharma whatever is called Mind transmission. The understanding of this Mind implies no Mind and no Dharma.”
― Huang Po, The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind

“has never been either tainted or pure, clamorous or quiet, young or old. It has neither direction nor locus, neither inside nor outside, neither size nor form, neither color nor sound. It cannot be sought or pursued, comprehended through wisdom, expressed in language, contacted through sense objects, or reached through meritorious practices.”
― Seon Master Subul, A Bird in Flight Leaves No Trace: The Zen Teaching of Huangbo with a Modern Commentary

“Philosophical discourse does not want to sculpt statues ‘immobile on the pedestals’ [the beautiful statues which philosophical systems are, we can perhaps add, PH]. It rather aims at making everything it touches active, efficacious and alive; it wants to inspire the desire to act, judgements which generate useful acts … [and] engender greatness of soul.48”
― Pierre Hadot, The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot: Philosophy as Practice

“The only way out is through.” And the only good way through is together.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet