31 Quotes by Nanamoli Thera

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women actors on it" says Shakespeare. But actually only the men and women in the public gaze are actors on it. I, for instance, whom — and this I hold one of my greatest blessings while it is so — the public does not gaze on, am not an actor, but only a scene-shifter: the stage is curtained when I and those like me move on it. (Addition:) Or that is how I should like it to be always

The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?

Where would I be (and what would happen to me), if I could see all round me and above and below at once ?

The basic Irrational Act which is renewed every moment of life, is not to commit suicide.

It is in the company of others that one can be really lonely, for then one's personality is forced openly to try to express what it's separate individuality is.

It is our eyes that blind us and our ears that deafen us.

Just as one can arrange bits of iron, etc, into a hermetically sealed box which imprison other pieces of matter, so one can arrange thoughts into a box too, which effectively imprisons other thoughts.

It is no ipso facto escape from dogma to assert (knowingly or not) non-dogmatism dogmatically.It is no ipso facto escape from credulity to believe in one's own scepticism.

Ignorance screens the truth. It is on that screen that people paint pictures and write underneath their labels "god" and "not-god" and "theism.' and "atheism" .