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[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)


Stephen Batchelor


#metaphysical-beliefs #mindfulness #piety #theism #transcendence

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.


Alan Wilson Watts


#metaphysics

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.


Alan Watts


#duty #full #god #idea #infinity

A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.


Leszek Kołakowski


#doubt #irony #modernity #philosophy #self-criticism

Man was born for society. However little He may be attached to the World, He never can wholly forget it, or bear to be wholly forgotten by it. Disgusted at the guilt or absurdity of Mankind, the Misanthrope flies from it: He resolves to become an Hermit, and buries himself in the Cavern of some gloomy Rock. While Hate inflames his bosom, possibly He may feel contented with his situation: But when his passions begin to cool; when Time has mellowed his sorrows, and healed those wounds which He bore with him to his solitude, think you that Content becomes his Companion? Ah! no, Rosario. No longer sustained by the violence of his passions, He feels all the monotony of his way of living, and his heart becomes the prey of Ennui and weariness. He looks round, and finds himself alone in the Universe: The love of society revives in his bosom, and He pants to return to that world which He has abandoned. Nature loses all her charms in his eyes: No one is near him to point out her beauties, or share in his admiration of her excellence and variety. Propped upon the fragment of some Rock, He gazes upon the tumbling waterfall with a vacant eye, He views without emotion the glory of the setting Sun. Slowly He returns to his Cell at Evening, for no one there is anxious for his arrival; He has no comfort in his solitary unsavoury meal: He throws himself upon his couch of Moss despondent and dissatisfied, and wakes only to pass a day as joyless, as monotonous as the former.


Matthew Gregory Lewis


#contentment #discontentment #hermit #hermits #hopelessness

I thought I should make a place to bring light down into this world. All things that become realities start in that place of someone imagining them.


Andy Couturier


#community #environmentalism #japan #sustainability #art

My goal is to draw a line with some 'flavor' to it.


Andy Couturier


#community #environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees.


Andy Couturier


#community #environmentalism #gardening #green #japan

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.


Christopher Hitchens


#christianity #atheism

I will bathe in your warmth ma petite. Roll you around me until my heart beats only for you. My breath will grow warm from your kiss.


Laurell K. Hamilton


#blood #hot #jean-claude #kiss #laurell-k-hamilton






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