Quotes from Richard Rose

There's some things even Enlightenment won't change. If you're a son-of-a-bitch before you visit the Absolute, you'll still be a son-of-bitch after.

I come to you as a man selling air, And you will think twice at the offer and price, And you will argue that nothing is there, Although we know that it is - everywhere. I bring a formula largely untold, - Of forces mixed with between and betwixt. And only seen when allowed to unfold. And better felt when the body is cold. I have a map to the home of the soul, Beyond the mind is a golden find, - The paradox is a guide to the goal, - Though doubt is sacred, each man is the Whole.

Life gives you all the koans you need.

I'd come to realize that if a man is ever going to grasp anything it won't be by learning. His being has to change. You are what you do, not what you know. A man never learns; he becomes. To become, you must find ways and means to change your entire state of mind. This in turn will lead to a change of being.

You don't know anything until you know Everything.