Trying to awaken is the attempt to create something stable and substantive out of something ephemeral and ethereal.
Ordinary men feign astonishment at things which are in truth quite ordinary, while extraordinary men are astonished only that everyone else doesn’t get it.
The difference between being ordinary and being awake is that everybody else believes in magic, (in some form or the other). The ultimate distinction is that a man with open eyes/I’s doesn’t believe in anything – he no longer needs to.
A son asked a father: “I’ve heard it said, ‘What can’t be cured must be endured’ – does that apply to oneself also?”
Ten thousand things are required, not a single one necessary
for This Thing to occur.
Ten thousand things are required, and yet not a single one of them is necessary.
J.