Top 23 Garden Zen Quotes
#1. When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.
Muso Soseki
#2. Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden
D.T. Suzuki
#3. You go beyond 'I want it. I want to have it' - to - 'I'm going to have it
Marilyn Horne
#4. Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind.
Walter J. Phillips
#5. Sometimes, rehearsals are not worth it if you do not have an accurate cast, and that is one of the most difficult parts about a film.
Javier Camara
#6. There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
Chuck Close
#7. Good enough?"
"Well...yeah," Linc says, the scalpel hanging limp in his hand. He looks mildly disappointed.
"Don't worry. The opportunity to cut me could still present itself someday," Daniel says.
Heather Hildenbrand
#8. In his face, I see the whole of my life. I see a baby who came to me long after I'd given up ... and a hint of the beauty I once had. I see ... my life in his eyes.
Kristin Hannah
#9. There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.
Rumi
#11. I think," Dr. Stone said, "that when you tried to kill yourself you got in touch with reality for the first time.
Philip K. Dick
#12. My thatched hut;
the whole sky Is its roof
The mountains are its hedge,
And it has the sea for a garden.
I'm inside with nothing at all,
Not even a bag,
And yet there are visitors who say "
It's hidden behind a bamboo door"
- Muso Soseki
Muso Soseki
#13. How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!
Brad Warner
#14. From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things.
Solomon
#15. Running helped me learn how to deal with failure, and failure is a big part of the Internet business.
Chad Hurley
#16. Behind the cool mask of bravado, past the one-way mirror of his mind, underneath the rock-solid layers of self-control, in the Zen garden that was Master Sewer's soul, a high-pitched anxiety fart rustled through the still leaves. If farts could talk, this one would have said, Damn coppers!
Sorin Suciu
#17. Shigemori's body of work is a compelling manifesto for continuous cultural renewal.
Christian Tschumi
#19. The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.
Frederick Lenz
#20. I suggest you apply whatever wisdom you have."
-Shevata, "Children of Discord" (upcoming novel)
C.C. Cole
#22. I made a photograph of a garden in Kyoto, the Zen garden, which is a rectangle. But a photograph taken from any one point will not show, well it shows a rectangle, but not with ninety degree angles.
David Hockney
#23. I don't want you to be a people-pleaser; you need to stand up for what you want and what you believe.
Amy Reece
