“ The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive? Nanamoli Thera
“ 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. Nanamoli Thera
“ 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. Nanamoli Thera
“ Where would I be (and what would happen to me), if I could see all round me and above and below at once ? Nanamoli Thera
“ Everyone knows that border across which he cannot go, even in thought, and it is that, not the former, that people automatically shut out and cannot face. Yet one knows at times (in the middle of the… Nanamoli Thera
“ 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. Nanamoli Thera
“ The basic Irrational Act which is renewed every moment of life, is not to commit suicide. Nanamoli Thera
“ When we are young the noise of general conversation seems much the most fun. When we grow up we discover the possibilities of the tete-a-tete. In maturity the monologue habit sets is. But now at last… Nanamoli Thera
“ 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" . Nanamoli Thera
“ Suppose boredom is a backstairs to liberation — insignificant, and so often overlooked. No one who has not known its higher degrees can claim to have lived. Not the Relative Boredom of long waiting at… Nanamoli Thera
“ The more I examine and observe experience (What else can one do? Build castles?), the more I find that I can only say of consciousness (and in this I find a notable confirmation in the Pali Suttas) th… 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… Nanamoli Thera
“ Sati—sampajanna ("Mindfulness and clear comprehension") should be examined carefully from the point of view of the centipede who could not walk when she thought about how she moved her limbs. And also… Nanamoli Thera
“ The word “consciousness,” it seems to me, can only refer to what one might define provisionally as “the knowing that cannot know itself without intermediary and that cannot function in experience (of… Nanamoli Thera
“ The so-called seven colours of the spectrum together go to make up what is known as light — what, in other words, the scientists say is no more than a mere fractional band in the whole range of electr… Nanamoli Thera
“ Don't build yourself an ivory tower" the moralists say. But I am an ivory tower by the mere fact that I am. On the crude physical level the body is a frame of (ivory) bones on which the muscles are st… Nanamoli Thera
“ Wandering across a city — walking often quite alone, down dark alleys, through unfrequented districts and debouching suddenly onto main thoroughfares where for a spell one follows the main stream, is… Nanamoli Thera
