At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.
And the question of Wester religion, Flattery said, is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?
A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation
There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?
The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.
The joy of living, its beauty is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you,
The Zensunni approach to birth, he said, urging her even faster, is to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension. Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure...
Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injur...
QUESTION: Who governs the governors?ANSWER: Entropy.
Prophecy and prescience—How can they be put to the test in the face of the unanswered question? Consider: How much is actual prediction of the wave form (as Muad’Dib referred to his vision-image) and...
Paul sat down where Hawat had been, straightened the papers. One more day here, he thought. He looked around the room. We’re leaving. The idea of departure was suddenly more real to him than it had ev...
Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing or even...
Ovo je promjenjiv svemir, a mi smo najneobičnija promjena od svih. Mi treperenjem odgovaramo na mnoge utjecaje. Našim budućnostima treba stalno obnavljanje podataka.
Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly...
Jessica, hearing the voices, felt the depth of the experience, realized what terrible inhibitions there must be against shedding tears. She focused on the words: He gives moisture to the dead. It was...
I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentme...
How strange. You're more Gowachin than a Gowachin.
He’s awake and listening to us, said the old woman. Sly little rascal. She chuckled. But royalty has need of slyness. And if he’s really the Kwisatz Haderach…well….
Fate was sometimes inscrutable.