Quotes for All
In Nirvana, it is you, my friend, who goes away. You take an eraser and erase yourself. It’s like the Road Runner cartoons where in the middle of the cartoon, the hand of the artist appears on the screen and erases the Road Runner. Frederick Lenz
It’s as if all your past is written on the blackboard, and if we could erase it, your past would no longer exist. The way you do that – the only way you do that – is in samadhi. Frederick Lenz
Once we erase ourselves, then there’s no eraser. There never was anyone to erase. We’ve awakened from the dream and the dream has faded. Frederick Lenz
We erase ourselves; we go away. But we don’t really go away, and we don’t really erase ourselves, since we were never there to begin with. We weren’t there to begin with in that what we are, or conceive of ourselves as, is a perception. Frederick Lenz
When we erase perception, then we erase that which perceives perception. The universe dissolves and we see that it was never real to begin with. Frederick Lenz
Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer, or wiser, or more powerful than others. Francois-Noel Babeuf
It’s incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God’s plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn’t make sense to us. Neither should we erase God’s revealed plan of punishment because it doesn’t sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are … Read more
I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can’t erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings. Francis Bacon
I really, really enjoy fitting words together – but I only enjoy it when it’s easy, when it sort of rolls along by itself. I never erase anything [and] I hardly ever write anything down… The song will be finished before I write it down… I won’t write a song unless it serves me in … Read more
It is not possible to erase racism just because African-Americans have reached a level of financial success and crossover appeal. Farrah Gray