Waking Up

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