Shikantaza Quotes

#1. Our life is whatever we are encountering right now, and our practice is shikantaza, which is literally 'just sitting.' More broadly it means to put our energy into settling everything in our world here and now, where we really live.

Kosho Uchiyama

#2. Daniel Woodrell has made a name as a master of prose with personality - a densely descriptive, gamey form of storytelling, one might say traditional storytelling - of late rather an unfashionable mode.

Sarah Hall

#3. Because even after all this, I still loved her. Love and hate were two sides of the same coin, and my coin was destined to land with love facing up. And the minute I made peace with those odds was the minute I'd start winning.

Karina Halle

#4. Change wasn't something to fear anymore. And even though my picture was hung on the wall, I didn't care so much about how I'd be remembered. So long as I never forgot.

Siobhan Vivian

#5. Life's gonna run you over if you don't get goin.

Garth Brooks

#6. Before I knew escape, life was something to be endured, passively. Now I hunger for it.

Kristin Halbrook

#7. The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Peter Drucker