Muso Soseki Quotes

#1. All worries and troubles have gone from my breast and I play joyfully far from the world. For a person of Zen, no limits exist. The blue sky must feel ashamed to be so small."
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#2. 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

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#3. When there is no place that you have decided to call your own, then no matter where you go, you are always heading home.

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#4. When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.

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#5. Sometimes my dream seems the stupidest thing in the world. Sometimes it is a secret treasure in my pocket

Anya Parrish

#6. 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.

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#7. So vast a sum, receiving all the protection and benefits of the government, without bearing its proportion of the burdens and expenses of the same, will not be looked upon acquiescently by those who have to pay the taxes ... I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.

Ulysses S. Grant

#8. I believed that I was being forced to sacrifice my family and my career in defense of the Communist Party, from which I had long been separated and which I had grown to dislike and distrust.

Edward Dmytryk

#9. It would be merciful for people not to come calling and disturb the loneliness of the mountains to which I have returned from the sorrows of the world.

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#10. If the wrong person preaches a right teaching, even a right teaching can become wrong. If a right person expounds a wrong teaching, even a wrong teaching can become right.

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#11. The thing that comes most frequently to me on yoga retreats is excruciating pain in my hips.

Taiye Selasi

#12. The central benefit of Zen, in the context of ordinary ups and downs of life,is not in preventing the minus and promoting the plus,but in directing people to the fundamental reality that is not under the sway of ups and downs.

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#13. And things change, she remembered, no matter how hard you try to hold them in place.

J.D. Robb

#14. The poem is a cry of the unborn heart. Yes, because the poem perfectly embodies the world, there is no world without poem.

E.L. Doctorow

#15. But clearly an economy that's growing and expanding like this one - and it certainly is doing that with high GDP output, employment numbers strong, capacity utilization strong - that's an environment in which the Fed needs to continually be alert to early signs of inflation.

John W. Snow

#16. It is better to practice a little than talk a lot.

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#17. I'm excited to win a pole at Atlanta, one of the tracks you look forward to qualifying at every single year, and really happy to beat Ryan Newman, who is hard to beat here.

Kasey Kahne

#18. Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is in itself liberating

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#19. Sometimes art is ahead of revolution.

Ziad Doueiri

#20. Old age and death are in the natural course of things. There is nothing a doctor can do about them.

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