Antonio Porchia Quotes

To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.

Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

Nothing is the shadow of Everything.

If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole.

Tao is the source of both fullness and emptiness. But it is itself neither fullness nor emptiness.

Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

The crown of life is neither happiness nor annihilation; it is understanding.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

The wise see knowledge and action as one.

Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion.

Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.

In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil.

When you die, you are extinguished. From being you will be transformed to non-being. A god does not necessarily dwell among our capricious atoms.

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.

Everything contains its antithesis.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

We all dream dreams of unity, of purity; we all dream that there's an authoritative voice out there that will explain things, including ourselves.