"The world is the theatrical stage for the comedy of the absurd"
Hawkins, from Reality, Subjectivity & Modern Man, 2008. Post includes an article with a spiritual practice at 595.
Quotes
"The magic you're looking for is in the work you're avoiding"
Request: Not magic as magical... I would assume in the meaning of the beauty and the wonders of life you expect are things that you would access if you go [beyond] your own limits?
"The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion"
Request: Quote by Alan Watts.
"God is still writing your story, stop trying to take the pen"
Priority request: Saw this on a T shirt and liked it.
"Let me assure you again that the Buddha dwells not in light..."
From Huangbo on the Transmission of Mind, translated by John Blofeld.
“pain is the background of all [your] pleasures”
Request: Maharaj’ words on page 36 in “I’m That.”
"The less you want, the richer you are"
Priority request: This is a quote attributed to Yanni. It basically just suggests that the issue of lack is created by desire and is an illusion or a projection rather than a reality.
"Right is right even if no one is doing it..."
"Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it" -- St. Augustine.
"The quality of the food influences the mind. The mind feeds on the food consumed."
Request: Quote from Ramana Maharshi. Always stood out for me, doesn't feel right.
"When the thirst for the world disappears, the water of heaven appears"
Trading the payoffs of illusion for the sweetness of Reality.
"Faith without reason leads to superstition..."
"...Reason without faith leads to nihilism and relativism" -- Pope John Paul II in his encyclical Fides et ratio (Faith and Reason). Priority request.
"An assumption, though false, if persisted in, will harden into fact"
Attributed to Neville Goddard. By request.
"It is better to be an integrous atheist or agnostic than a nonintegrous religionist"
Request: It’s a bit shocking to me! It’s against the common [norm] in religions. This statement from: I: Reality and Subjectivity.
"You are morally obliged to do remarkable things"
Request: Quote from Jordan Peterson's Instagram page. I am not sure if it's above 200, sound like a hard work or even a force.
"The only protection is owning that we are the source of our own experience..."
"...that we are the master of it, that we can handle it, and that we are greater than it" -- The Ego Is Not The Real You, by David R. Hawkins, p. 38. Priority request.