Charles W. Field quotes

Charles W. Field quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Good humor and enthusiasm should be the sunshine ahead that will keep that shadow behind.”
-- Charles W. Field

#Sunshine Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Enlightenment Quotes

“I haven't come to you only to take , I haven't come to you empty handed : I bring you poetry as great as yours but in anther tongue , I bring you black eyes and golden skin and curly hair , I bring you Islam and Luxor and Alexandria and Lutes and tambourines and date-palms and silk rugs and sunshine and incense and voluptuous ways”

Source : Ahdaf Soueif (1999). “In the Eye of the Sun”, p.512, A&C Black
“When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself.”
“Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.”
“Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.”
“Enlightenment means waking up to what you truly are and then being that.”
“The road to enlightenment is paved with authenticity, not imitation.”
“Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.”

Source : Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage
“It can be made only when one recognizes the ground of being itself, when one recognizes directly that One is All.”
“No single step in the persuit of enlightenment should ever be considered sacred; only the search was.”
“The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines.”

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