Stephen

“By the way, Doctor, I shall want your co-operation.” “I shall be delighted.” “You don’t mind breaking the law?” “Not in the least.” “Nor running a chance of arrest?” “Not in a good cause.” “Oh, the cause is excellent!” “Then I am your man.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection

“I’m not answering a question, I’m confirming a suspicion. Is it all bullshit? “Yes,” I say. I pause for dramatic effect. “No belief is true. No. Belief. Is. True.”
― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing

“A poem by Ryokan comes to mind: Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.”
― Jed McKenna, Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damnedest Thing

“Clinging is born to someone who dwells on the spheres of the senses; desire is born from clinging; and anger is born from desire. 63”
― Anonymous, The Bhagavad Gita