thoughts about "reality" that "I" came across, resonated with; thoughts that made me go "hm" [in a good way]
To my mind to be astonished at nothing is much more stupid than to be astonished at everything.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (Bobok)
When a thought arises just see its nature, do not conceive the water and waves to be different.
Savaripa (Collection of Songs on the Oral Mahamudra Teachings)
From the beginning not a thing is. Where is there room for dust?
Hui-neng (quoted in Yampolsky, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch)
Every so-called fact is embedded in some kind of theoretical context.
Van Kaam (Existential Foundations of Psychology)
What we find in the end is always is emptiness, because that is the basis of our condition.
Chogyal Namkahai Norbu (Dzogchen Teachings)
Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.
Shobogenzo Genjokan
The mind indeed is of the form of space. The mind indeed is omni-faceted. The mind is the past. The mind is all. But in reality, there is no mind. Some seek nonduality, others duality. They do not know the Truth, which is the same at all times and everywhere, which is devoid of both duality and nonduality.
The Advahuta Gita (Verses 9, 36, quoted in J. Katz, One: Essential Writings on Nonduality)
There is no concept that can define the condition of “what is” but vision nevertheless manifests: all is good.
The Six Vajra Verses (quoted in C. N. Norbu, Dzogchen, The Self-Perfected State)
Outer and Inner are simultaneously arising. This non-conceptual yoga is like the flow of a river. As one need search nowhere other than mind.
Maitripa (Songs on View, Meditation, Action and Fruit, in David Stott, Ph.D. diss., 1985)
To question is to presuppose the possibility of a negative answer, a negative answer being one in which the questioner would encounter as a result of his questioning the fact that a certain state of affairs is not.
Fernando Molina (Existentialism As Philosophy)
A day goes by. Every shiver of grass counts.
Gretel Ehrlich (The Solace of Open Spaces)
How completely I feel at home here! It was not for nothing that I nodded and put down my things. "Was this your destination?" I ask myself as a joke. "Yes," I answer.
Knut Hamsun (A Wanderer Plays On Muted Strings)
It takes a certain degree of brainlessness to remain permanently contented with oneself and with everything.
Knut Hamsun (A Wanderer Plays On Muted Strings)
I have no mission, no places I must visit; I am just a wanderer setting out from a logger's cabin and coming back to it again; it makes no difference where I am. <...> It is starting to freeze as I wander back home to my logger's cabin; soon the frost bites into moors and marshes, and makes the going easy. I saunter onward, slowly and indifferently, with my hands in my pockets. Why should I hurry? It makes no difference where I am.
Knut Hamsun (A Wanderer Plays On Muted Strings)
Why, in short, all these exactlng demands? What have we earned? As many boxes of candy as a sweet tooth could desire? <...> No, a man should not believe in his right to more candy than he gets. <...> And there it is: the very favor of receiving life at all is handsome advance payment for all life's miseries, each single one.
Knut Hamsun (A Wanderer Plays On Muted Strings)
So I saunter and saunter in circles around myself, enjoying myself, tasting solitude.
Knut Hamsun (A Wanderer Plays On Muted Strings)