To what shall
I liken the world?
Moonlight, reflected
In dewdrops,
Shaken from a crane's bill.
-Dogen
Thus shall ye think of all this fleeting world:
A star at day, a bubble in a stream;
A flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.
-The Diamond Sutra
This world is but
A fleeting dream
So why be alarmed
At its evanescence?
-Ikkyu Sojun
O world invisible,
we view thee,
O world intangible,
we touch thee,
O world unknowable,
we know thee.
-Francis Thompson
The phenomenal world cannot disclose its own secret.
-E. Maitland
This world is but the dream that you can be alone,
and think without affecting those apart from you.
-A Course in Miracles
and think without affecting those apart from you.
-A Course in Miracles
There is only one world.
Things outside only exist if you go to meet them
with everything you carry inside yourself.
As to the things inside, you will never see them well
unless you allow those outside to enter in.
-Jacques Lusseyran
Whoever is the world own the world.
Whoever accepts the world receives the world.
-David K. Reynolds
Whoever accepts the world receives the world.
-David K. Reynolds
There's nothing in this world I dislike.
-Rinzai Gigen
-Rinzai Gigen
The world only becomes transparent to man
when man himself is completely transparent,
when he is what he truly is.
-Chao Yong
This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest.
-Frederick W. Robertson
The splendor of the world
is always in accordance with the splendor of the mind
that contemplates it.
-Heinrich Heine
when man himself is completely transparent,
when he is what he truly is.
-Chao Yong
This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest.
-Frederick W. Robertson
The splendor of the world
is always in accordance with the splendor of the mind
that contemplates it.
-Heinrich Heine
The whole world is you,
yet you keep thinking
there is something else.
-Hsueh-Feng
yet you keep thinking
there is something else.
-Hsueh-Feng
With a very strong light,
one can make the world disappear.
Before weak eyes, it will become solid;
before still weaker eyes, it will acquire fists;
and to eyes yet weaker, it will be embarrassed
and punch the face of anyone who dares to look at it.
-Anonymous
one can make the world disappear.
Before weak eyes, it will become solid;
before still weaker eyes, it will acquire fists;
and to eyes yet weaker, it will be embarrassed
and punch the face of anyone who dares to look at it.
-Anonymous
I wanted the whole world or nothing.
-Charles Bukowski
Why should the wise man
be anxious over a small portion of this world?
Is the might sea ever agitated
by the movements of the little fish?
-Bhartrihari
be anxious over a small portion of this world?
Is the might sea ever agitated
by the movements of the little fish?
-Bhartrihari
How terrible the world seems
to those who do not know themselves!
-Szeslaw Milosz
to those who do not know themselves!
-Szeslaw Milosz
The world's floors
are quaking, crumbling and breaking.
-Edith Sitwell
are quaking, crumbling and breaking.
-Edith Sitwell
The “end of a world” never is and never can be
anything but the end of an illusion.
-Rene Guenon
anything but the end of an illusion.
-Rene Guenon
