All That Is Unspoken Quotes

“You necessarily have to be lost, before you’re found.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“I don’t know where I’m going on this path. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. You had to be lost, before you could be found. These are the truths. You had to be confused, before you could find clarity; you had to suffer, before you could find peace. These were the only ways, life could happen. Of course you were confused before you found clarity. If you weren't confused, then you would already be clear. Of course you were lost before you were found. If you were already found, then you wouldn't be lost. Of course there would be suffering before peace. If there was already peace, then there wouldn't be suffering. One necessarily came before the other.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Do you want love, or do you want control?”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“If it is going to kill you,” Enso Roshi says, “then let it kill you.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Is it love, or is it attachment? Do you want to love her, or do you want to control her?”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Let one who seeks not stop seeking until that person finds.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“To love one’s self, this is the greatest challenge we are all called to face.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Stand in your own two shoes.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“I am not alone, in my aloneness.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Why hold secrets? Why harbor anything? Let me just share everything with you. Let me just talk. Let me let go of the censor that is within me ... I’m tired of trying to be someone other than who I am.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“The mind is limitless, in its creations.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Nothing needs to be done, and things get done.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“When you love yourself, utterly and completely, all of yourself, what you will discover then is that you love others, all others, utterly and completely.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“We come to the end of suffering, through suffering.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“What was meaningful? What was meaningless? What did it mean, to amount to something? What type of life, was worth living? Was it better, to make a ton of money, and have a fucking goddamn Mercedes, or whatever the fuck kind of car it was, to be a lawyer with a ‘serious’ job, and to have ‘amounted to something,’ or was it better to just be a waiter, and work the evening shift, and have your days free to goof off with your roommates, your friends, to go to meditation, to take some time to reflect, and enjoy life, and to not always be in such a big goddamn rush to get somewhere?”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“I feel so trapped, by my ego.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Intention was everything.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“I loved Enso Roshi’s teachings. I loved learning about life. I loved life. It was a good thing to feel. I loved life, and I loved learning, and I was still learning. I was not, yet, done. At the end of our journeys, there would be an end to the journey. Maybe. If I was lucky. If providence shone down upon me gently. I would find love. I would find acceptance. Complete love. Complete acceptance. I would know, that the self, is an illusion. I would come to enlightenment, but that would also mean, there would be no ‘I’ there. I would realize that the ‘I’ was an illusion, all along, just like some great dream. This is what the wise sages say, the great teachings, the mystical teachings, not only from the East, but also from the West. The Gospel of Saint Thomas. Thomas Merton. Thomas, like I was Thomas, and also doubting, the main reasons I’d chosen the name. If nothing else, it was lovable, just as it is. My life. Even the parts I didn’t love, could I love them? The struggles. It was all part of the journey, and would I not look back fondly on this, at some time? Look at how arduous and sincere I’d been. Look at how worried I’d been. Look at how insecure I’d been. Look at how I’d struggled. Trying to find my way. Would I not look back upon myself, affectionately and fondly and with love?”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“It is all, the unfolding. Neither good nor bad, my destiny.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more judging.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“And could you, from a place of love, actually stand up and, use force, to give someone back, the suffering, they were trying to put on you? Would I do it? Maybe it would even be, an act of fierce compassion, as Enso Roshi sometimes talked about, to not take it any more. To not cow down, anymore. To let my father know, the tyrant, the aggressor, that if he hits me, I’m going to hit back, and hard.”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken

“What would my life, have been like, if I hadn't been put up for adoption? Who would my parents have been then? Or my parent, my mother?”
― T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken