Quotes About Reflection

I have seen these marshes a thousand times, yet each time they're new. It's wrong to call them benign. You could just as well call them cruel and senseless, they are all of those things, but the reality of them overwhelms halfway conceptions.

One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose.

the thing to do when working on a motorcycle, as in any other task, is to cultivate the peace of mind which does not separate one's self from one's surroundings. When that is done successfully then everything else follows naturally. Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all.

The answer doesn't seem to satisfy him. But he can't seem to say what's wrong with it.

We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get a chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day to day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.  

From all this awareness we must select, and what we select and call consciousness is never the same as the awareness because the process of selection mutates it.

Stuckness shouldn't be avoided. It's the psychic predecessor of all real understanding.

He was insane. And when you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your own knowledge that he's insane, which is not to see him at all.

An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.

I read a sentence or two, wait for him to come up with his usual barrage of questions, answer them, then read another sentence or two. Classics read well this way.

After a while you may find that the nibbles you get are more interesting than your original purpose of fixing the machine.

One lives longer in order that he may live longer. There is no other purpose. That is what the ghost says.

Who really can face the future? All you can do is project from the past, even when the past shows that such projections are often wrong.

That is impractical, but practicality isn't the whole thing with gloves or with anything else.

The statement "To travel is better than to arrive" comes back to mind again and stays. We have been traveling and now we will arrive. For me a period of depression comes on when I reach a temporary goal like this and have to reorient myself toward another one.

For this you keep a lab notebook. Everything gets written down, formally, so that you know at all times where you are, where you've been, where you're going and where you want to get.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then sometimes you can come up with something. "All

Cerchi di capire dove stai andando e dove sei, e ti sembra che la tua vita non abbia senso. Ma quando dài uno sguardo indietro si delineano delle costanti, e se ti proietti in avanti partendo da quelle, a volte ti capita di scoprire qualcosa.

I don't want to own these prairies, or photograph them, or change them, or even stop or even keep going. We are just moving down the empty road. 5

I'm happy to be riding back into this country. It is a kind of nowhere, famous for nothing at all and has an appeal because of just that.

Mountains like these and travelers in the mountains and events that happen to them here are found not only in Zen literature but in the tales of every major religion. The allegory of

Peace of mind produces right values, right values produce right thoughts. Right thoughts produce right actions and right actions produce work which will be a material reflection for others to see of the serenity at the center of it all. That

Stuckness. That's what I want to talk about today. Back

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.