Inspirational quotes by Annie Dillard, Jack Kerouac, and others

“Innocence is a better world.”

     Annie Dillard (Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, p83)

“A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension.”

     Oliver Wendell Holmes

“All that is vital is irrational.”

     Miguel de Unamuno

 “What a strange thing is man…”
     Jack Kerouac (Dharma Bums, p77)

“It says in the sutra that God, or Tathagata, doesn’t himself emanate a world from his womb but it just appears due to the ignorance of sentient beings.”

     Jack Kerouac, DB, p201

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These inspirational quotes are taken from the unpublished writings of Jack Haas, selected from the notebooks 1990-2005.