Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now. ” We do not “come”, we “are. ” Don't strive to become, but be.
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.
The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.
And, what we've allowed ourselves to become - and this is part of Chris' ideas - is complacent, in allowing our lives to be taken over, or at least in allowing that kind of scrutiny into our lives. We've given up a little bit of that, and this is the existential nightmare of all of that. What happens when you suddenly find out that people have been watching you, with a purpose?
Humour's the pay-off for all that existential horror.
To be inspired is the ultimate antidote to existential despair.
My films require that the spectator ask the big existential questions. If you're not interested of turning inwards for answers, my films won't fulfill their whole purpose.
Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.
There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.
In every nowhere town there are somewhere dreams
Whether arrived at through reason or revelation. . . natural law is the highest law known to man. It is anchored in the very existential nature of man and is therefore a priori just.
. . . history has shown that the most terrible crimes against love have been committed in the name of fanatically defended doctrines.
. . . intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish of him who has stumbled into a blind alley.
Love can exist only after meditation, not before it. That is a simple existential law. Before meditation - only lust, only sexuality. Before meditation you are an animal and not really a human being. With meditation a transformation comes: you become human, and out of your humanness, love flows.
(although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)
I know in an existential sense that life can change on a dime. . . something has instantly and inexorably changed in American life.
I really like that homosexuality is a little bit of an existential puzzle.
There is a vast difference between positive thinking and existential courage.
We are always doing something to cover up our basic existential anxiety. Some people live that way until the day they die.
A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A theoretical poverty is no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, in the poor, in the sick and in children.