Alan Quotes

It was when I saw Iggy Pop, that's what did it for me. That changed my life pretty much.

This is definitely a reality check for us, we've just got to learn from this and move on.

Duality is always secretly unity.

Where-so-ever beings exist throughout all galaxies, it doesn't make any difference - you are all of them....and when they come into being, that's you coming into being.

The trouble with many religions, accused of wishful thinking, is that they are not wishful enough. They show a deplorable lack of imagination.

It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are.

When we look for things there is nothing but mind, and when we look for mind there is nothing but things.

There is a peculiar contradiction in trying to be a member of a republic while believing that the universe is a monarchy.

For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.

To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it.

You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.

To feel that life is meaningless unless “I” can be permanent is like having fallen desperately in love with an inch.

Do you have any control over being conscious? Do you know how you will?

Truly great companies are built on ideals, not just deals.

You can't figure out the Universe, especially if you're using figures to figure it.

Buddhism ... is not a culture but a critique of culture, an enduring nonviolent revolution or "loyal opposition" to the culture in which it is involved.

Increasingly, we're developing all kinds of systems for verifying reality by echoing it.

Our normal sense of the person as a lonely island of consciousness, is a dramatic illusion based on theological imagery.

The hallucination of being a separate ego will not stand up to biological tests.

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.

Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair.

How could you say the best form of government is a republic if you think the universe is a monarchy?

A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.

Racing shirts should be sold on big, thick rolls like paper towels.

You have to be careful what you say in front of comedy writers because they will absolutely make fun of it in the next episode.

You can't blame the person for creating that illness for themselves, because it was a creation. If you could find out how you created it, you might be able to find out a way to let go.

The typical mass murderer is extraordinarily ordinary.

I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.

A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page: 'This is not a lesson I have ever been in a position to learn.

Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.

Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

One of the hardest things for boys to learn is that a teacher is human. One of the hardest things for a teacher to learn is not to try and tell them.

There was the noise itself, which he thought of vaguely as the noise of classical music, sameish and rhetorical, full of feelings people surely never had

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

I still can't believe it . . . him comin' here everyday, nobody realizin'. Still, that's life: lotta stuff happens under the waterline.

What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?

Continents of memory had been lost.

The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.

If we loved Steve Aylett, really loved him in the way that he deserves, a selfless love that genuinely wanted nothing save his happiness and comfort, we'd lobotomise him.

For humans, flying isn't magic, it's physics.

There was a young man who said though, it seems that I know that I know, but what I would like to see is the I that knows me when I know that I know that I know.

He wanted pure compliments, just as he wanted unconditional love.

Be at peace with your choices.They all serve you.

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.