Toni Packer Quotes

#1. In truth we are not separate from each other or from the world, from the whole earth, the sun or moon or billions of stars, not separate from the entire universe. Listening silently in quiet wonderment, without knowing anything, there is just one mysteriously palpitating aliveness.

Toni Packer

#2. When the image is identical to reality, the imagination is compelled to be neutral. Therefore let the image of the object lie to the object so we can see what lies beyond the object, and in the light of that vision see what saves us from nothingness.

Mahmoud Darwish

#3. A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#4. We are human beings, not 'students' and 'teacher,' coming together and questioning, looking together, not having made up our minds about what we're looking at, but starting afresh.

Toni Packer

#5. The solution of the problem lies in seeing it - in the seeing, without wanting a solution, or dissolution - just seeing what's there ...

Toni Packer

#6. Life isn't measured in minutes, but in heartbeats.

Joan Lowery Nixon

#7. I suppose Stanley fell in love with me during those talks about life and books, but he probably loved someone else, a person who wasn't me.

Siri Hustvedt

#8. Awareness cannot be taught, and when it is present it has no context. All contexts are created by thought and are therefore corruptible by thought. Awareness simply throws light on what is, without any separation whatsoever.

Toni Packer

#9. What are we when there is no one doing anything, no one attaining anything, no place to go? There is no place to go. The whole foundation is already here in each one of us. It is the same in all of us. There is only one foundation, which is presence, wholeness, boundless love.

Toni Packer

#10. Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made ... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes ... For a single genus, a single name.

Carl Linnaeus

#11. Some of the freshest, most compelling, and most soulful music I have heard recently. Bob Reynolds is an amazing musician, with something very exciting and original to say.

Joshua Redman

#12. Life is a vast, unknowable movement of wholeness with no one separate from it and nothing outside of it.

Toni Packer

#13. Everything in New Orleans was competitive. People would always be betting on who was the best and the greatest in everything. That's where the battles of music came in.

Danny Barker

#14. I see disaster everywhere; I also [ ... ] see generosity and resistance everywhere.

Rebecca Solnit

#15. The only thing better than living on a mac, is living at Hogwarts.

Bing Gordon

#16. Let love therefore be what it will, my Uncle Toby fell into it - And possibly, gentle reader, with such a temptation so wouldst thou: For never did thy eyes behold, or thy concupiscence covet, anything in this world more concupiscible than widow Wadman.

Laurence Sterne

#17. These three - fellowship, the Word, and prayer - will enable the believer to experience the new life in his heart: in his intellect, emotions, will, and spiritual life.

Charles C. Ryrie

#18. Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.

Jim Butcher

#19. Great design = getting people to do what you want.

Seth Godin

#20. Let your name be worth more than your bank account

Ray Lewis