Quotes by : Stephen Batchelor

Buddhism has become for me a philosophy of action and responsibility. It provides a framework of values,....

I am empty only in the sense that there is nothing fixed or intrinsically real at the core of my identity....

Without relying on any deities, mantras, or mandalas, without having to master the intricacies of any....

A person who is asleep is either lost in deep unconsciousness or absorbed in a dream. Metaphorically,....

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other....

We are participatory beings who inhabit a participatory reality, seeking relationships that enhance our....

Did I live? The human world is like a vast musical instrument on which we play our individual part while....

Much of what animated me in those days I now recognize as the romantic yearnings of an idealistic, alienated,....

After all, people desire immortality and do not wish to embrace the inescapable reality of death; they....

One of the most difficult things to remember is to remember to remember. We forget that we live in a....