Sahn Quotes

#1. Don't want anything. Then you get everything.

Seung Sahn

#2. When reading, only read. When eating, only eat. When thinking, only think.

Seung Sahn

#3. The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

Eric Schmidt

#4. Perceiving your own voice means perceiving your true self or nature. When you and the sound become one, you don't hear the sound; you are the sound.

Seung Sahn

#5. The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.

Henri Pirenne

#6. Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

Richard Curtis

#7. It's simply impossible for me to filter my thoughts and feelings. I tell it from my point of view. I'm an open book.

Lori Lesko

#8. Black is not a vice. Nor is segregation a virtue.

Kiese Laymon

#9. Bogeymen or not, I was in love with Alden Thomas, regardless of what name I went by or what demon wanted me dead.

Mary Lindsey

#10. Trying to explain moral principles to Khe Sahn was like reviewing a standard 1040 tax form with a house cat!

David Sedaris

#11. Human beings understand too much.

Seung Sahn

#12. Meditation means keeping one mind. You must understand - what is life? What is death? If you keep one mind, there is no life, no death. Then if you die tomorrow, no problem; if you die in five minutes, no problem.

Seung Sahn

#13. The Truth is realized in an instant; the Act is practiced step by step.

Seung Sahn

#14. She must not trust me. That means I'm not doing as good a job as her pretend right-hand man as I think I am.

Veronica Roth

#15. Don't underestimate the effects of complacency ... cobwebs are deceptively heavy and are hard to shake loose.

Erica Goros

#16. The question of what happens after life is question that unifies human beings.

Georgia Byng

#17. Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment - what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action is complete; each action is enough. Then no thinking, so each moment I can perceive everything just like this.

Seung Sahn

#18. I'm a huge sci-fi/fantasy/horror guy. I love anything in the sci-fi or fantasy genre.

Sean Hayes

#19. God is working in us for his good pleasure. Paul does not say that God is working in us for our good pleasure.

R.C. Sproul

#20. I know that I have a voice and can use it for good or bad. It's a gift from God.

Demi Lovato

#21. We've seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture.

Elayne Boosler

#22. And not being guided into action by foolish thought is what is known as "wisdom" (prajna).

Zen Master So Sahn

#23. You wonder and you wonder until you wander out into Infinity, where - if it is to be found anywhere - Truth really exists.

Marita Bonner

#24. I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.

Seung Sahn

#25. American dog say, 'Woof, woof.' Korean dog say, 'Mung, mung.' Polish dog say, 'How, how.' So which dog barking is correct? That is human beings' barking, not 'dog' barking. If dog and you become one hundred percent one, then you know sound of barking. This is Zen teaching. Boom! Become one.

Seung Sahn

#26. Marriage is the tomb of friendship.

Hannah Webster Foster