Frederick Franck Quotes
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What is spiritual experience? A snowflake melting, a bee sucking honey, a fat man at a traffic light. Trivia.
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When the Christ says I: it is the I of all the Masters: the Way, the Truth, the Life
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I and the Father are not-two!
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the distance between this pigeon's brain and mine is minute compared to that between mine and Bodhi 's Wisdom Compassion
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While drawing grasses I learn nothing 'about' grass, but wake up to the wonder that there is grass at all.
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To see the human condition in the old woman, in the child, in the model on the stand, in that particular human being, and to let the hand trace it, this act of adoration is called, 'drawing from life.
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all at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth!
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What are you?" I am no What! I am only I ... In relation to you!
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A single leaf falling autumn is everywhere.
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Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.
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Life ends with the previous thought It is resurrected with the subsequent One
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In the history of everyone in whom the artist-within has survived conditioning, schooling, training - there are (persons) influences that have kept him alive, awake .. who have encouraged him without even trying - just by being. They have been One's real teachers.
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The clearsighted eye turns the light back to see its own Original Nature.
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I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.
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Enlightenment is simply sanity~ the sanity in which I see my real situation in the living fabric of all that exists.
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When the eye wakes up to see again, it suddenly stops taking anything for granted.
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The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core.
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The Void is a living void ... pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it embraces all Being/non-Being
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I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen
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It is not that things are delusory but their separateness in the fabric of the Whole that is illusory.
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Everyone thinks he knows what a lettuce looks like. But start to draw one and you realise the anomaly of having lived with lettuces all your life but never having seen one, never having seen the semi-translucent leaves curling in their own lettuce way, never having noticed what makes a lettuce a lettuce rather than a curly kale.
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Illusion is the mantle of the Real
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Do you believe in God? I, I believe in nothing but God!
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Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it.
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Do you believe in God?" "Which one?
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For you can look at things while talking or with a radio going full blast, but you can see only when the chatter stops.
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We do a lot of looking: we look through lenses, telescopes, television tubes... Our looking is perfected every day, but we see less and less.
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Innumerable Buddhas Enlightened... innumerable Christs crucified... always the same Christ, the same Buddha!
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The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!
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Each dot: the center of a circle without circumference...
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