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« To love someone is to love them for what they are in their uniqueness. There is no need to compare it with canons of beauty but simply and perhaps this is what the practice of Zen teaches me, to let reality be fully what it is without bringing it back to our ideals. As another friend in the good said: "to judge reality is to want to occupy the throne of God and the place is already taken" (p. 41 and 42) »
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes |
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Alexandre Jollien
Small Treatise on Abandonment: Thoughts to Welcome Life as It Proposes
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« There's no point in talking, about hours of suffering. We must find ways to eliminate it and, if we cannot, accept it, give it meaning »
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Alexandre Jollien
Praise for weakness |
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Alexandre Jollien
Praise for weakness
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« The difference disturbs, decontaminated man in his concern for perfection. As for fear, it shrinks it. »
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Alexandre Jollien
Praise for weakness |
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Alexandre Jollien
Praise for weakness
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