Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Sylvian

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.

Alan Watts

Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end," he says. And the master replies, "What would you do with the other end?" This is answering an everyday matter in terms of the metaphysical. When the question is, "Master, what is the fundamental principle of Buddhism?" Then he replies, "There is enough breeze in this fan to keep me cool." That is answering the metaphysical in terms of the everyday, and that is, more or less, the principle zen works on. The mundane and the sacred are one and the same.

Alan Watts

Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

Alan Watts

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.

Chogyam Trungpa

Buddhism doesn't tell you what is false and what is true but it encourages you to find out for yourself.

Camille Paglia

The followers of Derrida are pathetic, snuffling in French pockets for bits of pieces of a deconstructive method already massively and coherently presented and with a mature sense of the sacred in Buddhism and Hinduism.

Andy Wachowski

There's something uniquely interesting about Buddhism and mathematics, particularly about quantum physics, and where they meet. That has fascinated us for a long time.

David Bowie

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

Aung San Suu Kyi

When you think of Buddhism, you're likely to think of peace and tranquility.

William Galston

The poor don't need their consciousness raised as to what a good life looks like,

Jesse Jackson

The poor and the working poor have been locked out of the nation's consciousness, even by the media and by many ministers. Katrina washed away the debris that was covering the locked out and left behind.

Andrew Booth

Uhl has been constant all season. She made a conscious decision during the summer to be a leader on the team. She's been a force down low.

Elon Musk

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

Eric Brown

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days.

Phil Bredesen

We did not even have a 30-day notice to prepare ourselves so that we could at least have a supply of medications while we tried to figure out what to do next, ... How can you in all good consciousness tolerate this kind of a practice?

Jared Diamond

I personally am not conscious of my accent.

Jane Wagner

... it's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.

Alan Watts

Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

Drew Brees

We're starting to get in that rhythm we need to be in,

Chelsea Handler

I'm not graceful either. I have no rhythm, I'm never on top.

Matt Maldre

Search for variety in between the rhythm of what we already know, and you will find wonder.

C. S. Lewis

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.

Richard Kovalcheck

I feel like we got in a rhythm towards the end there,

Jameer Nelson

I feel like I'm starting to get my rhythm now.

Ai Miyazato

I don't feel tired at all, and want to keep with the rhythm I have right now.

Shinji Mori

I did that a lot in Japan. By doing that, I can get some rhythm back and keep my balance.

Alex Lifeson

Pete Townshend is one of my greatest influences. More than any other guitarist, he taught me how to play rhythm guitar and demonstrated its importance, particularly in a three-piece band.