Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society โ your home โ tells you is important.
Brad WarnerYou can't live in paradiseโbut you are living right here. Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.
Brad WarnerIn the Japanese movie's they're throwing everything they have at him, every missile, but he keeps coming, he can't be stopped and that represents death. There's nothing you can do to stop it, to keep yourself from dying. You can try every trick in the book and it still won't prevent it.
Brad WarnerHow many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
Brad WarnerFor a very long time science and philosophy were considered part of the same continuum and it was only within the last few hundred years they've been considered different areas of inquiry, and now we're starting to go back to the idea that maybe they aren't two separate realms of inquiry.
Brad WarnerI guess what attracted me about the philosophy aspect was that it was realistic. It didn't go off into the realm of imagination land, which I find a lot of religious teachings, actually almost every religious teaching does. I keep meaning to write this up as a blog post, but lately, while driving in my car I've been listening to a religious station that comes on out of Cleveland from the Moody Bible Institute.
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