"Plainly words do violence to the understanding, and confuse everything; and betray men into countless empty disputes and fictions."
Francis Bacon, The New Organon
"The subtlety of nature far surpasses the subtlety of sense and intellect, so that men’s fine meditations, speculations and endless discussions are quite insane, except that there is no one who notices."
Francis Bacon, The New Organon
"Tao called Tao is not Tao."
Tao Te Ching
"Question your thoughts. Question your stories. Question your assumptions. Question your opinions. Question your conclusions. Question them all into utter emptiness, stillness and joy."
Adyashanti
(Source: ashramof1, via imissedwhatyousaid)
"Every moment for him is worth an eternity. He lives wholly in the present, in the here and now. Not in yesterday, not in tomorrow, and yet in them too, since they are the framework of human existence, the flux of time."
Eugen Herrigel
"No fate but the narratives we impose on life’s random chaos to distract ourselves from our existential plight."
When they reach a certain elevation, French mountain climbers switch from the formal vous to the personal tu form of “you,” as all become equal in the face of the enormousness of nature.
