Top 31 Frederick Franck Quotes
#1. Frederick Franck is one of a rare and precious breed - an authentic troubadour whose lyricism is pure in word and image. He quietly roams our materialistic world and shows us that even here, even now, there is hope for our soul.
Jacob Needleman
#2. What are you? I am no What! I am only I ... In relation to you!
Frederick Franck
#3. The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!
Frederick Franck
#4. You are not copying nature, but responding to nature in full awareness, to the way nature expresses itself in that object.
Frederick Franck
#5. When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.
Frederick Franck
#6. On the exoteric level the traditions are irreconcilable. On the esoteric, experiential level of the heart reigns an eloquent, reverential silence.
Frederick Franck
#7. The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.
Frederick Franck
#9. In the history of everyone in whom the artist-within has survived conditioning, schooling, training - there are (persons) influences that have kept him alive, awake .. who have encouraged him without even trying - just by being. They have been One's real teachers.
Frederick Franck
#10. It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory ...
Frederick Franck
#12. The local painters were my idols ... These artists, too, were grown-ups, but they were grown-ups who could still see! Their eye was still in love! Like mine!
Frederick Franck
#13. In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.
Frederick Franck
#15. Life ends with the previous thought It is resurrected with the subsequent One
Frederick Franck
#16. The distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion
Frederick Franck
#17. The Void is a living void ... pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it embraces all Being/non-Being
Frederick Franck
#18. When a monk complained about the world's evil, the Buddha stretched his hand toward the Earth: on this Earth I attained Liberation.
Frederick Franck
#20. Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a Way of being.
Frederick Franck
#21. If you still have to talk about Ultimate Reality See how it manifests itself nakedly in Every thing!
Frederick Franck
#23. The clearsighted eye turns the light back to see its own Original Nature ...
Frederick Franck
#24. Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.
Frederick Franck
#26. They do not see what they look at, hence they know not what they do.
Frederick Franck
#27. I know artists whose medium is life itself, and who express the inexpressible without brush, pencil, chisel or guitar. They neither paint nor dance. Their medium is Being. Whatever their hand touches has increased life ... They are the artists of being alive.
Frederick Franck
#28. It is wise to avoid militants of all plumage, to trust only the fanatically unfanatic
Frederick Franck
#29. All at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!
Frederick Franck
#30. To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life.
Frederick Franck
#31. People walking? Karma walking ... Buddha nature walking..!
Frederick Franck
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