Waking Up
Quotes curated from the Waking Up newsletter
Waking Up
Quotes curated from the Waking Up newsletter
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Jacob Bronowski
Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 per cent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself—and there isn't one.
Wei Wu Wei
The reason we suffer is that we seek peace elsewhere—and do not experience that we are peace incarnate itself.
H. W. L. Poonja
Read by Jayasāra, Advaita
Look very closely: only impermanence lasts. The floating world, too, will pass.
Ikkyū
There is only this—nothing added, nothing missing, nothing left out. What a miracle.
Stephan Bodian
Read by , The Direct Approach
Listen to the ceaseless hum of being. You can't help but hear it, for it is the sound of everything.
John Astin
Read by , Beyond Concepts
The usefulness of a window is not so much in the frame as in the empty space through which something can be seen.
Alan Watts
Read by , The Universe
The everyday human gesture is always a heartbeat away from the miraculous.
Nick Cave
Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.
Steve Jobs