Quoting continues

Lately I have been using quotes instead of writing things by myself. It’s just that many things have already been said very well and there’s no need for me to put the message into different form. So here are once again some quotes and short comments about each of them.

Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Börne

Truth is not something to be found. Truth is left when illusions have vanished.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ~Henry David Thoreau

When I was in high school I wrote an essay about ”philosophy of fishing” which was exactly about this.

Don't Look Before You Leap. ~Book by Osho

I once wrote to my friend that ”life is like falling freely without trying to grab anything to stop you from falling”. Our most common mistake is that we tend to think and analyze, we try to be in control of everything - we don’t just leap. Lack of spontaneity is actually denying life.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem. ~Alexander Jodorowsky

Problem is not finding an answer to some question but question itself. Once you see that questions rising in your mind are just troublemakers, nature of ego, then questions start dissolving.

No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen

People tend to think that something wrong has happened to them. That they did not deserve this or that. Instead of accepting how things are they whine how things should be. Everything is perfect right now, always has been, always will be. However, it’s up to you to realize it.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought. ~Matsuo Basho

This should be written with capital letters on the sky. People of all religions (and outside religions as well) follow someone. Whether that someone is their ideal visualization about some historical character or their interpretation about some holy book makes no difference. Do not follow footsteps of Jesus. Do not follow footsteps of Buddha. Seek what they sought. Seek truth.

Alice came to a fork in the road. "Which road do I take?" she asked.
"Where do you want to go?" responded the Cheshire cat.
"I don't know," Alice answered.
"Then," said the cat, "it doesn't matter."
~Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Personally, this is something I have been tasting already for sometime now. If you don’t know what do you want to do or where do you want to go – you can do anything and go anywhere.

I tell you everything that is really nothing, and nothing of what is everything, do not be fooled by what I am saying. Please listen carefully and try to hear what I am not saying. ~Charles C. Finn

Nothing more to add to that.