Quotes by : Stephen Batchelor

I was encouraged to ask in all seriousness what this life is for, what matters most for myself and others,....

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

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty,....

We should not allow ourselves to be deceived by our outward show of ‘civilized’ manners and ‘cultured’....

No matter how hard I tried, I was incapable of giving more importance to a hypothetical, post-mortem....

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

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

We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men....

Ironically, we may discover that death meditation is not a morbid exercise at all. Only when we lose....

Letting go of a craving is not rejecting it but allowing it to be itself: a contingent state of mind....