Top 10 Nanamoli Thera Quotes



The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?

 

It is in the company of others that one can be really lonely, for then one’s personality is forced openly to try to express what it’s separate individuality is.

 

The basic Irrational Act which is renewed every moment of life, is not to commit suicide.

 

Just as one can arrange bits of iron, etc, into a hermetically sealed box which imprison other pieces of matter, so one can arrange thoughts into a box too, which effectively imprisons other thoughts.

 

It is no ipso facto escape from dogma to assert (knowingly or not) non-dogmatism dogmatically.It is no ipso facto escape from credulity to believe in one’s own scepticism.

 

Ignorance screens the truth. It is on that screen that people paint pictures and write underneath their labels “god” and “not-god” and “theism.’ and “atheism” .

 

It is our eyes that blind us and our ears that deafen us.

 

A thought for this Damocletian Age: the trouble with justice is it just isn’t it?

 

Where would I be (and what would happen to me), if I could see all round me and above and below at once ?

 

How is it I have the strength to carry my own weaknesses?

 

 

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