confusion enough

“I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.” -Umberto Eco

“Things are not what they appear, nor are they otherwise.” -Buddha

“The truth in [the teachings] is uncontainable and inexpressible. It neither is, nor is it not. What does this mean? What this means is that Buddhas and disciples are not enlightened by a set method of teachings, but by an internally intuitive process which is spontaneous and is part of their own inner nature.” -Subhuti, from the Diamond Sutra

“If we are here for any good purpose at all (other than collating texts, running rivers, and learning the stars), I suspect it is to entertain the rest of nature. A gang of sexy primate clowns. All the little critters creep in close when human beings are in a good mood and willing to play some tunes.” – Gary Snyder

“Judaism maintains that human existence is a state of involvement. Man is involved with the Creator by his very being; for in being he obeys the command, ‘Let there be!’ Just to be is holy. Being is not a predicament of guilt but rather a triumph, a tribute to Him Who has created the world. Just to be is a blessing. Being is a continuous bestowal of blessing. The problem is not being. How to be is the dilemma.” -Abraham Joshua Heschel

“To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all things of the universe.” -Dogen

‎”Seeking perfect total enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find your flashlight.” -Lew Welch

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror.
Just keep going. No feeling is final.” -Rilke

“We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.” -Jorge Luis Borges

“The horrific struggle to establish a human self results in a self whose humanity is inseparable from that horrific struggle.” -David Foster Wallace

“A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can not expect an apostle to peer out.” -Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.” -Kurt Vonnegut

“Every time I wake up, no matter in what position, it’s always been today.” -Bob Dylan

“In our practice the self is not pushed away, it drifts away.” -Jim Harrison

“The world is at fault, not because it is inherently good or bad or anything but what it is, but because it doesn’t prepare us in anything but body to get along with. Our souls it leaves to whatever obsolescences, bigotries, theories of education workable and un, parental wisdom or lack of it, happen to get in its more or less Brownian (your phrase) pilgrimage between the cord-cutting ceremony and the time they slide you down the chute into the oven, while the guy on the Wurlitzer plays Aba Daba Honeymoon because you had once told somebody it was the nadir of all American expression; only they didn’t know what nadir meant but it must be good because of the vehemence with which you expressed yourself.” -Thomas Pynchon

“…he discovered that his consciousness continually vacillated between infinity and sneezing.” -Julio Cortazar

“We come unhinged when we finally leave our parents’ home, and it is notoriously difficult to become hinged again. Many solve this dilemma by starting their own families. I, on the other hand, have always chosen to chain myself to the nearest radiator or pipe.” -Biplob Kumar Debnath