My Life in Quotes #4

My Life in Quotes #4

". . . through the awakening of love we get a glimpse into the infinity of things. . . "- D.T. Suzuki, Zen Buddhism

When I read this quote, I don’t think I had yet experienced love in an adult sense.  As a young and possibly romantic teen, I could only imagine what a powerful experience love could be.

Reading this now as an older and wiser adult, I DO think that the deepest feeling of love can transport us out of the realm of the ordinary and into a sense of connection to the universe, to eternity, to something that endures outside of space and time. 

May we all be awakened to such love!

About this series-

I love words.  I love when a word exactly captures the moment, the feeling.  How it precisely describes something that you experienced but didn’t know exactly how to express.  It’s like a warm bath or a deeply satisfying meal.

         And beyond that- a collection of words.   A deeply insightful phrase, thought-provoking and uplifting.  A quote to remember.

         I started collecting quotes when I was 16 years old.  (1972)  I’m 68 now, as I write these words, (2024), and there are 472 quotes in my collection.  At this precise moment. 

         That’s not really that many over the course of 52 years.  I guess I am fairly discriminating.  Sometimes years can go by and the collection lays dormant.  In other years there is a great harvest of quotes. 

         These are not necessarily famous quotes, things you’ll often hear referenced.  For the most part, they simply represent words that I read that made me stop for a moment to meditate and bask in their impact.  And quotes I enjoy reading and re-reading and quoting myself!

         These quotes represent the evolution of my thinking over the course of 52 years.  I look forward to pondering what it is that made me find each one meaningful enough to save.