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T. Scott McLeod Quotes | Quotes said by T. Scott McLeod

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #1

    And could you, from a place of love, actually stand up and, use force, to give someone back, the suffering, they were trying to put on you? Would I do it? Maybe it would even be, an act of fierce compassion, as Enso Roshi sometimes talked about, to not take it any more. To not cow down, anymore. To let my father know, the tyrant, the aggressor, that if he hits me, I’m going to hit back, and hard.


  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #2

    As you think and act, so your world becomes.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #3

    Can you allow yourself to be impaled on the present moment?

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #4

    Do you want love, or do you want control?

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #5

    Easy to be a critic; hard to be a quarterback.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #6

    Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #7

    I am not alone, in my aloneness.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #8

    I don’t know where I’m going on this path. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. You had to be lost, before you could be found. These are the truths. You had to be confused, before you could find clarity; you had to suffer, before you could find peace. These were the only ways, life could happen. Of course you were confused before you found clarity. If you weren't confused, then you would already be clear. Of course you were lost before you were found. If you were already found, then you wouldn't be lost. Of course there would be suffering before peace. If there was already peace, then there wouldn't be suffering. One necessarily came before the other.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #9

    I feel so trapped, by my ego.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #10

    I loved Enso Roshi’s teachings. I loved learning about life. I loved life. It was a good thing to feel. I loved life, and I loved learning, and I was still learning. I was not, yet, done. At the end of our journeys, there would be an end to the journey. Maybe. If I was lucky. If providence shone down upon me gently. I would find love. I would find acceptance. Complete love. Complete acceptance. I would know, that the self, is an illusion. I would come to enlightenment, but that would also mean, there would be no ‘I’ there. I would realize that the ‘I’ was an illusion, all along, just like some great dream. This is what the wise sages say, the great teachings, the mystical teachings, not only from the East, but also from the West. The Gospel of Saint Thomas. Thomas Merton. Thomas, like I was Thomas, and also doubting, the main reasons I’d chosen the name. If nothing else, it was lovable, just as it is. My life. Even the parts I didn’t love, could I love them? The struggles. It was all part of the journey, and would I not look back fondly on this, at some time? Look at how arduous and sincere I’d been. Look at how worried I’d been. Look at how insecure I’d been. Look at how I’d struggled. Trying to find my way. Would I not look back upon myself, affectionately and fondly and with love?

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #11

    If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #12

    Is it love, or is it attachment? Do you want to love her, or do you want to control her?

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #13

    It is all, the unfolding. Neither good nor bad, my destiny.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #14

    It is only path bending. Don't let it be mind bending.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #15

    It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever gets to heaven, without going through hell. The center of all things, the truth, is surrounded by demons.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #16

    Let one who seeks not stop seeking until that person finds.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #17

    Let whatever happens, be what needs to happen, so that I may awaken.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #18

    Life gives you exactly what you need to awaken.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #19

    Maybe it’s something which can’t be defined,” Enso Roshi says. “Maybe it’s a question, to be lived.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #20

    My belief is the belief of no beliefs. That's my belief.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #21

    Nothing needs to be done, and things get done.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #22

    Orange Juice? Sure. Toast? Sure. One last time on the couch? Sure. Phone number? Sure. See you again? Oooh, absolutely. That was the lie I told. Probably not, that was the truth, that was that which went unspoken.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #23

    Praise and blame, gain and loss, pleasure and pain, fame and disripute, these are just the worldly winds of existence.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #24

    Stand in your own two shoes.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #25

    Success doesn't come to you; you go to it.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #26

    The mind is limitless, in its creations.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #27

    The way is not clear, and it is when you do not have clarity, when this is allowed, that you will finally have clarity.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #28

    There is some fiction, in all fact; and some fact, in all fiction.

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #29

    There were so many beliefs which we had about the world, which then influenced everything, everything, about how we saw the world and interacted in the world and were with others. Everything. It was profound to me, amazing, the ramifications, the implications, the far-reaching impact that one’s beliefs could have on the world. It was actually mind-blowing for me. Figuratively speaking. Like, it was just, holy shit. Look at that. And nobody, hardly anybody sees it. They’re just ideas. Ideas. And yet, I’d believed them for so long, and still, was still shirking free of them. How was it that we believed in them, so readily, so easily?

  • T. Scott McLeod Quote #30

    This would be a secret that I would carry with me, until the day I died.

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