Paul Reps quotes

“An instant realization sees endless time. Endless time is as one moment. When one comprehends the endless moment He realizes the person who is seeing it.”
-- Paul Reps

Source : Paul Reps (2015). “Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection Of Zen And Pre-Zen Writings”, p.144, Pickle Partners Publishing

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“We are most asleep when awake.”
-- Paul Reps

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“Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy.”
-- Paul Reps

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“Only a single line is needed to discover who is doing what.”
-- Paul Reps

Source : Paul Reps (1989). “Square Sun Square Moon: A Collection of Sweet Sour Essays”, p.26, Tuttle Publishing

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“The line comes before meaning.”
-- Paul Reps

Source : Paul Reps (1989). “Square Sun Square Moon: A Collection of Sweet Sour Essays”, p.24, Tuttle Publishing

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“Drinking a cup of green tea, I stopped the war.”
-- Paul Reps

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“The realization of justice is, in the actual state of things, a matter of life or death for society and for civilisation itself.”

“True happiness comes from the realization that God has already made available everything we will ever need.”

“There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.”

“You never realize how much you value something until you are faced with the prospect of losing it.”

Source : Adam Braun (2014). “The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

“Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.”

Source : Agnes Martin, Lawrence Alloway, University of Pennsylvania. Institute of Contemporary Art (1973). “Agnes Martin: exhibition January 22 to March 1, 1973”

“To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.”

“Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.”

“Once you realize what a joke everything is, being the Comedian is the only thing that makes sense.”

“Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony”

“It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live.”