My Life in Quotes #4
". . . through the awakening of love we get a glimpse into the infinity of things. . . "- D.T. Suzuki, Zen Buddhism
When I read this quote, I don’t think I had yet experienced love in an adult sense. As a young and possibly romantic teen, I could only imagine what a powerful experience love could be.
Reading this now as an older and wiser adult, I DO think that the deepest feeling of love can transport us out of the realm of the ordinary and into a sense of connection to the universe, to eternity, to something that endures outside of space and time.
May we all be awakened to such love!
About this series-
I love words. I love when a word exactly captures the moment, the feeling. How it precisely describes something that you experienced but didn’t know exactly how to express. It’s like a warm bath or a deeply satisfying meal.
And beyond that- a collection of words. A deeply insightful phrase, thought-provoking and uplifting. A quote to remember.
I started collecting quotes when I was 16 years old. (1972) I’m 68 now, as I write these words, (2024), and there are 472 quotes in my collection. At this precise moment.
That’s not really that many over the course of 52 years. I guess I am fairly discriminating. Sometimes years can go by and the collection lays dormant. In other years there is a great harvest of quotes.
These are not necessarily famous quotes, things you’ll often hear referenced. For the most part, they simply represent words that I read that made me stop for a moment to meditate and bask in their impact. And quotes I enjoy reading and re-reading and quoting myself!
These quotes represent the evolution of my thinking over the course of 52 years. I look forward to pondering what it is that made me find each one meaningful enough to save.
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