Dainin Katagiri Quotes

#1. I think that all architects, structural engineers, educators, and service personnel should have to spend a day in a wheelchair as part of training.

Juli K. Dixon

#2. If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.

Frank Delaney

#3. The point of the spiritual life is to realize Truth. But you will never understand the spiritual life, or realize Truth, if you measure it by your own yardstick.

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#4. My first year and a half in Hollywood, I did three films. Then in 1959, I was in 'Gidget,' 'Imitation of Life' and 'A Summer Place.' After that, I was a star. It was fun.

Sandra Dee

#5. If you want to take care of tomorrow, take better care of today. We always live now. All we have to do is entrust ourselves to the life we now live.

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#6. You cannot find any peace by escaping from human pain and suffering; you have to find peace and harmony right in the midst of human pain. That is the purpose of spiritual life

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#7. The nature of ignorance is to lack deep communication with nature or with the universe. It is to separate, to isolate, to create discrimination and differences, so that finally we cannot communicate as a harmonious whole. These differences we create appear as fighting, anger, hatred, and war.

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#8. We need so little to be happy. Happiness does not come from things. Happiness comes from living a full and exciting life.

Ken Ilgunas

#9. The moment between before and after is called Truth.

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#10. Make positive effort for the good.

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#11. If you want to find Buddha nature, love someone and care for them.

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#12. Be present, from moment to moment, right in the middle of the real stream of time. That gives you spiritual security. That is why in Buddhism we don't try to escape from impermanence; we face time itself in our daily living.

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#13. Accept that your life is going on beyond your usual understanding.

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#14. Whatever you think is delusion.

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#15. Spiritual security means you are fully alive and comfortable in your life as it is, without expecting anything.

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#16. All of us experience a gap between our minds and the reality of time - that's why we suffer.

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#17. Compassion is like springwater under the ground. Your life is like a pipe that can tap into that underground spring. When you tap into it, water immediately comes up. So drive your pipe into the ground. Tap into the water of compassion.

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#18. Depression is something that seems really obscure when you see it in a theater, but when you talk to people who come to see it and hear their reactions, you realize that it is such a prevalent part of life and our society today that it really needed to be told, and still needs to be told.

Aaron Tveit

#19. Death is not natural for a state as it is for a human being, for whom death is not only necessary, but frequently even desirable.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#20. If we wanted to make money we would have become lawyers or doctors or stuff like that.

Gabriel Ba

#21. The important point of spiritual practice is not to try to escape your life, but to face it - exactly and completely.

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