Top 24 Kodo Sawaki Quotes
#1. Heaven and Earth give themselves. Air, water, plants, animals, and humans give themselves to each other. It is in this giving-themselves-to-each-other that we actually live. Whether you appreciate it or not, it is true.
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#2. You can't even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don't waste time thinking about who's most talented.
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#3. One of the greatest gifts to give our friends and others is a prayer.
Ellen J. Barrier
#4. Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar.
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#5. Live the Self that fills the whole Universe.
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#6. Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.
Evan Osnos
#7. We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#8. Through powerful and heartfelt communication with the universe, you can create a new world everyday-you can be proud of.
Pooja Ruprell
#9. If it's far away, it's news, but if it's close at home, it's sociology.
James Reston
#10. He was lying; I could hear it the way you hear a tune and you know how it goes. I wondered how many times I'd heard him lie, to know so well what it sounded like.
Annie Barrows
#11. The moment you realize you are not present, you are present.
Eckhart Tolle
#13. Satori has no beginning; practice has not end!
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#14. Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment.
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#15. He's discovered the value," I said, "of murderous bastards like me, so perhaps he'll learn to distrust the advice of sniveling bastards like you who told him the Danes could be defeated by prayer.
Bernard Cornwell
#16. You don't seek the way. The way seeks you.
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#17. Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone.
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#19. Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.
John Wesley
#20. Each of us believes himself to live directly within the world that surrounds him, to sense its objects and events precisely, and to live in real and current time. I assert that these are perceptual illusions ... Each of us lives within the universe - the prison of his own brain.
Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle
#21. We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.
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#22. We shall have gone deeper than the deeps of heaven and grown older than the oldest angels before we feel, even in its first faint vibrations, the everlasting violence of that double passion with which God hates and loves the world.
G.K. Chesterton
#23. One of the main things we learned as a band in those days was not to be the headliner.
Paul Kantner
#24. No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special.
Kodo Sawaki