Dogen Zenji Quotes

#1. At the moment of giving birth to a child, is the mother separate from the child? You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child. - Dogen Zenji, Mountains and Waters Sutra

Karen Maezen Miller

#2. Inspiration comes from everything from the entire world, and it's hard to pinpoint one thing. I can trace one inspiration to the writing of 13th-century Zen master Dogen Zenji, who writes beautifully about time.

Ruth Ozeki

#3. If you would escape your troubles, you need not another place but another personality.

Seneca.

#4. To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare's Hamlet is nothing but a property of a peculiar combination of letters.

Ernst F. Schumacher

#5. Stop creating reports, and start creating understanding.

Jay Baer

#6. God gave me wisdom, but the devil's got style.

Rodney Crowell

#7. The greatest romance is with the Infinite.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#8. All you need to do is recognize your true position as the witness. You only have to do this for some time, until the spell is broken. Even after the spell is broken these mental tendencies may arise, but without any power, just like you can see the moon in the daylight.

Mooji

#9. We must always remember, however,' said Psmith gravely, 'that poets are also God's creatures.

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#11. The more you can share,
the less lost you feel.

Lisa Schroeder

#12. But the truth was she could not bear to be around thier undead,healthy children.More than envy she felt that each laughing redcheeked child of thiers was an accusation of failure,a mockery of her own.

Toni Morrison