New Quotations in English

At the bottom of great doubt lies great awakening.

Meditation in the midst of activity is a thousand times superior to meditation in stillness.

From the sea of effortlessness, let your great uncaused compassion shine forth.

You know the sound of two hands clapping; tell me, what is the sound of one hand?

The truth is to be lived, not just mouthed.

 Those who worship don't know, and those who know don't worship.

The ultimate truth is beyond words.

Our freest will underlies strict moral laws, and one of the reasons for our longing for freedom is to prevent our obeying other laws than these.

The degree of inhibition against killing each one of these beings is a very precise measure for the considerably different values that we cannot help attributing to lower and higher forms of life. To any man who finds it equally easy to chop up a live dog and a live lettuce I would recommend suicide at his earliest convenience!

Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in the mind... a continuous stream of observations from which to make selections later.

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

We are discovering today that several of the premises which are deeply ingrained in our way of life are simply untrue and become pathogenic when implemented with modern technology.

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.

The creature that wins against its environment destroys itself.

Human verbal communication can operate and always does operate at many contrasting levels of abstraction.

The meaning of your communication is the response you get.

It takes two to know one.

Change will lead to insight far more often than insight will lead to change.

Improbable things happen a lot.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.