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Brad Warner QUOTES

Brad Warner QUOTES

1 " The thinking brain influences the body’s responses and it makes a neat little loop. "

― Brad Warner

2 " So I do fear death in the sense that I find the prospect of dying pretty scary. But I no longer fear that I will one day be annihilated and cease to exist. "

― Brad Warner , There Is No God and He Is Always with You: A Search for God in Odd Places

3 " We always believe that there's going to be some high, just around the corner that's going to pull us way, way, way up, where we'll stay forever. If our current romance doesn't do that for us, we'll look for a new one. When the giddy high of the first date wears off, we're ready for another fix.

There's no problem with loving something, we coupling up, with enjoying someone's company, and all the rest. But if you want to enjoy all that stuff to the fullest, the best possible way to do it is to stop looking for the big highs, peak experiences, and sweeping flights of blissful romance. All that stuff just causes its own counterreactions. Watch your own body and mind, and you'll see this for yourself. "

― Brad Warner , Sex, Sin, and Zen: A Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything In Between

4 " The very sense of wondering is God wondering. "

― Brad Warner , There Is No God and He Is Always with You: A Search for God in Odd Places

5 " Trying to understand the meaning of life in terms of the human brain's activities is like trying to understand the ocean by going to the shore and scooping out a bucket of water and analyzing it. "

― Brad Warner , There Is No God and He Is Always with You: A Search for God in Odd Places

6 " Much of the contemporary American atheistic movement seems to be treating atheism like a new kind of religion. ... It's just that some atheists are so damn evangelical about their nonreligion they might as well be ringing doorbells and handing out leaflets. "

― Brad Warner , There Is No God and He Is Always with You: A Search for God in Odd Places

7 " Much of the contemporary American atheistic movement seems to be treating atheism like a new kind of religion.  .... It's just that some atheists are so damn evangelical about their nonreligion they might as well be ringing doorbells and handing out leaflets.  "

― Brad Warner , There Is No God and He Is Always with You: A Search for God in Odd Places

8 " The very idea of higher states of consciousness is absurd. Comparing one state of consciousness to another and saying one is "higher" and the other is "mundane" is like eating a banana and complaining it's not a very good apple. "

― Brad Warner , Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth about Reality

9 " You can always improve your situation. But you do so by facing it, not by running away. "

― Brad Warner , Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma

10 " The state of ambiguity - that messy, greasy, mixed-up, confused, and awful situation you're living through right now - is enlightenment itself. "

― Brad Warner

11 " Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough. "

― Brad Warner , Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth about Reality

12 " If a tree falls in the forest and it hits a mime, would he make a noise? "

― Brad Warner , Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye

13 " If you want to believe in reincarnation, you have to believe that this life, what you're living through right now, is the afterlife. You're missing out on the afterlife you looked forward to in your last existence by worrying about your next life. This is what happens after you die. Take a look. "

― Brad Warner

14 " You won’t understand life and death until you’re ready to set aside any hope of understanding life and death and just live your life until you die. "

― Brad Warner , Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma

15 " You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game. "

― Brad Warner

16 " Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end. "

― Brad Warner , Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye

17 " Consider this:

1. Would you ride in a car whose driver was on the consciousness-expanding "entheogenic" drug LSD?

And here's a bonus question:

2. Why does an "expanded consciousness" include the inability to operate a motor vehicle? "

― Brad Warner , Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth about Reality

18 " Real wisdom is the ability to understand the incredible extent to which you bullshit yourself every single moment of every day. "

― Brad Warner , Sit Down and Shut Up: Punk Rock Commentaries on Buddha, God, Truth, Sex, Death, and Dogen's Treasury of the Right Dharma Eye

19 " As for enlightenment, that's just for people who can't face reality. "

― Brad Warner , Zen Wrapped in Karma Dipped in Chocolate: A Trip Through Death, Sex, Divorce, and Spiritual Celebrity in Search of the True Dharma

20 " This world is better than Utopia because - and follow this point carefully - you can never live in Utopia. Utopia is always somewhere else. That's the very definition of Utopia. "

― Brad Warner , Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth about Reality