
Top 29 Norman Fischer Quotes
#1. Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.
William Gibson
#2. In other words, to Train in the preliminaries is to stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and to recognize instead that regardless of what has happened or why, this is your life and you are the only one equipped to deal with it.
Norman Fischer
#3. So it does turn out that we do need to begin by contemplating the profound nature of self and other. Because if you change the leaves and branches but leave the roots intact, you run the risk of reverting to type.
Norman Fischer
#4. The Feminist Me says that a woman's right to her own body should be inviolate at all times, free from fear of peeping paps.
Julie Burchill
#5. Being a leader is one thing I've never felt comfortable with. It's not my nature.
Dwyane Wade
#6. Trust your own eyes. Only you can determine what is happening in your life and what to do about it. The
Norman Fischer
#7. Jack Sparrow: [empties bottle of rum] Why is the rum always gone? [stands up and staggers drunkenly] Oh... that's why.
Jack Sparrow
#8. When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
#10. Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.
Norman Fischer
#12. The first show I ever saw was Meat Loaf, and it was on the Bat Out of Hell tour. Meat Loaf actually had a huge 20-foot bat behind him. Smoke came out of the bat's nose and his eyes glowed red - which is still one of the most mindblowing productions I've ever seen.
Simon Taylor-Davis
#13. The student ends up lusting after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not the teacher.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
#14. There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
#15. Whether you are a genius or an idiot, a thief or, like me, a Zen priest who has cultivated the mind for 30 years - the mind anyway is subject to conditions.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
#16. I said I wouldn't push you, and I meant it. But one day, Chess, you're going to feel safe enough to let go. And I'm going to be there to catch you when you fall.
Kristen Callihan
#18. A person doesn't die from this or that disease. He dies from his whole life.
Norman Fischer
#20. We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
#22. We now see that the only way that we could love ourselves is by loving others, and the only way that we could truly love others is to love ourselves. The difference between self-love and love of others is very small, once we really understand.
Norman Fischer
#23. There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.
Isaac Hanson
#24. Compassion is sympathy for others specifically in the case of their suffering. Although it is uncomfortable, we are willing to feel the suffering of others and to do something about it when we can,
Norman Fischer
#25. I worked at Starbucks when I was 16 ... It was all right.
Adam Lambert
#26. The only difference between meditation and non meditation is that when we meditate we are not grasping anything or trying to do anything: instead we are releasing ourselves to our lives, with trust that our lives are all we need. (78)
Norman Fischer
#27. Spiritual awakening is exactly dropping the sense of one's narrow separateness; it is essentially and profoundly altruistic.
Norman Fischer
#28. It seems Korean women are enjoying a passive and fragile status, intoxicated by appearance. Not only feminism, but any serious discourse ends up being swept away by popular culture in Korea.
Kim Hyesoon
#29. A person like this is a blessing for the world. And there is no reason why you couldn't be that person. Why aren't you that person now? Because of these walls of self-protection you've built, these attitudes of limit and lack.
Norman Fischer
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