Quotes I’m Pondering
(Tim Ferriss: March 10–March 24, 2017)
“Kuei-shan asked Yun-yen,
‘What is the seat of enlightenment?’
Yun-yen said,
‘Freedom from artificiality.’”
–Kuei-shan (771–854)
Chinese Ch’an monk and the founder of the Kuei-Yang lineage, one of the “Five Houses” of Ch’an
“To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
–Søren Kierkegaard
Prolific Danish writer, considered the first existentialist philosopher
“To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.”
–James P. Carse
Professor emeritus of history and literature of religion at New York University, author of Finite and Infinite Games