86 Quotes by Brad Warner

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

People imagine enlightenment will make them incredibly powerful. And it does. It makes you the most powerful being in all the universe- but usually no one else notices.

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

So what I liked about Zen was that it never goes off into the realm of imagination land, or if it does occasionally, the good teachers will openly address it specifically as only imagination. Both of my teachers were very good at that.

You can’t live in paradise – but you are living right here. Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.

Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter – bliss or nonbliss – possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.

I remember writing the post but not what I said specifically, so I’ll either repeat myself or say something completely different and baffle everybody.

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

We just need to feel we know, or we can’t rest. And yet much of life is unknowable and will remain so. Lots.