Paradoxical Quotes

[Visitor]

[Visitor]

I heard this one today:

The heart has reasons that know no reason.

[phoenix666]

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. (Zen proverb)

[Nahm]

No one can make a choice for you, unless you choose not to make a choice, then someone else is making all your choices for you. 

 

[Visitor]

Do not seek to understand that I may believe, but believe so that I may understand.

[David1]

This statement is false. (self referential paradox)

Edited June 17, 2017 by David1

[cetus]

The honey of truth can taste bitter.

  

[Visitor]

“Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?"
"Of course, darling. Come here."
I took a few steps into the room. There was so much I wanted to say.
"I need you to be --" I said, and then I started to cry.
"Be what?" she said, opening her arms.
"Not sad," I said.” 
― Nicole Krauss

[phoenix666]

The opposite of a great truth is also true.

[Visitor]

Let no one deceive himself. If any of you thinks he is wise in this age, he should become a fool, so that he may become wise. - 1 Corinthians 3:18

[Visitor]

Unless and until ignorance is removed and Knowledge is gained (the Knowledge whereby the divine life is experienced and lived) everything pertaining to the spiritual seems paradoxical — God, whom we do not see, we say is real; and the world, which we do see, we say is unreal. In experience, what exists for us does not really exist; and what does not exist for us, really exists.

[Dodo]

Tolerance 

[davidpuralocura]

can you work on not working

if you care about nothing you care that you care about nothing

the only thing you have to do to be happy is nothing

 

[orroz]

- You are waiting for its magic arrival, but you don't realize that is yourself the one you were looking for

[AleksM]

@cetus56

"the ultimate truth is that all truths are true" ~Bashar

[Toby]

Effortless and choiceless awareness is our real nature. If we can attain it or be in that state, it is all right. But one cannot reach it without effort, the effort of deliberate meditation. - Ramana Maharshi

[Nahm]

I’m right here in the middle of nowhere. 

[Source_Mystic]

If you find the Buddha kill him !

Edited November 5, 2017 by Source_Mystic

[Pernani]

Giving up doesn't always mean you are Weak. Sometimes it means that you are Strong enough to let go

Ps: don't mind me for reviving this awesome thread from the grave lol

Edited October 30, 2019 by Pernani

[Synchronicity]

I don’t think any of these quotes are paradoxical. They all make perfect sense to me. But I’ll add on to the Nondualistic quotes anyways ?

“The Absolute is Relativity itself” 

“impermanence is permanent”

”Duality is Nondualistic”