86 Quotes by Brad Warner

Suffering occurs when your ideas about how things ought to be don’t match how they really are.

He had the saffron robes, the shaved head, and that mellow spiritual way of talking that let you know here was a guy who had truly achieved a rare state of inner with-it-ness.

You’ve won all creation. It’s yours to do with it as you please- and you discover what pleases you most is doing the right thing for all creation in moment after moment.

I used to worry when I was a teenager, even into my twenties, after I’d heard something about schizophrenia and how people just suddenly become schizophrenic that I was insane.

Morality is a personal matter.

No matter what we predict for our futures, we’re always wrong anyway. The only sensible thing to do is to live this life as it is right now. Leave what happens after you die till after you die.

But don’t get too hung up on the future. The future’s out of your control. Enjoy what’s happening right now. Do what is appropriate, what is right, in the present moment and let the future be the future.

I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I’ve forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.

When I first started watching Godzilla, I was a kid and a big dinosaur freak and was like, “Oh my gosh, there’s a big dinosaur.” So I immediately got into Godzilla. What I like about it are some of the things people often think are negative aspects.