Quotes from Frederick Franck

What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.

all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!

Do you believe in God? I, I believe in nothing but God!

Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.

Life ends with the previous thought It is resurrected with the subsequent One

The eye awakened is the eye in love.

When the Christ says I: it is the I of all the Masters: the Way, the Truth, the Life

Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.

It is wise to avoid militants of all plumage, to trust only the fanatically unfanatic

On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the heart reigns an eloquent, reverential silence.

Satori (enlightenment) is described as nothing seeing itself as such.

We have a belief that we need not believe in, no dogmas, no ritual, no mythology, no church, no priest, no holy book--what a relief!

This book is handwritten because, in its way, it is a love letter, and love letters should not be typeset by compositors or computers.

Self, stands in contradistinction to the Hindu doctrine of Atman

It is a nothingness unattainable by the intellect.

The true Self or Buddha-nature is precisely this nothingness or emptiness (sunyata).

This highly enigmatic concept of the storehouse consciousness, which some Western scholars have aptly or inaptly tried to liken to Jung's collective unconscious,

It takes place on a dimension higher than that of science (or scientism) or common sense.

The only way to remove permanently the risk of ultimate catastrophe is to abolish war altogether. War must cease to be an admissible social institution. We must learn to resolve our disputes by means other than military confrontation.

The local painters were my idols...These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine!

Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world. I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.