Takuan Quotes

#1. Takuan Soho stated, Each action of the warrior is performed from a place of fundamental wisdom ... it is completely different from the ordinary behavior of a fool. Even if it looks the same, it is different on the inside.

Bohdi Sanders

#2. If you follow the present-day world, you will turn your back on the Way; if you would not turn your back on the Way, do not follow the world.

Takuan Soho

#3. One day a wolf bit a man and the man caught it. Magic or science, it's all the same. The only thing magical about it is that we can't explain it." ~Sam

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. Helen likes Brussels sprouts. How can anyone trust her opinion?

Lisa Kleypas

#5. By the fifth 'I'm sorry' for the same cause, it's better to just say, I meant to do it.

Anthony Liccione

#6. One is not likely to achieve understanding from the explanation of another.

Takuan Soho

#7. Be kind to one another. Karma will be swift or slow but she will always come.

Sonya Watson

#8. When one practices discipline and moves from the beginner's territory to immovable wisdom, one makes a return and falls back to the level of the beginner.

Takuan Soho

#9. It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray - of the mind, do not be mindless

Takuan Soho

#10. Completely forget about the mind and you will do all things well

Takuan Soho

#11. People will have an altered idea of who you are unless they really take time to get to know you, which of course they don't. They just get what they see, and they take that to the bank.

Harry Hamlin

#12. The House of Commons, refused to receive the addresses of the colonies, when the matter was pending; besides, we hold our rights neither from them nor from the Lords.

Christopher Gadsden

#13. I simply cannot see where there is to get to.

Sylvia Plath

#14. One of the most refreshing ideas to come out of existentialism (perhaps the only one) is that we are free to interpret and reinterpret the meaning of our lives. You

Sam Harris

#15. One does not divine this by impressions or knowledge. What this means is that no matter how much you try to figure or calculate by means of impressions or knowledge, it will not prove the least bit useful. Therefore, separate yourself from the discrimination of figuring things out.

Takuan Soho

#16. Sever the edge between before and after.

Takuan Soho

#17. After torturing our adrenaline by watching a horror movie for a couple of hours the places we are most afraid of are the doors and windows of the room even though they are the only ways for us to escape in case of occurrence such an event.

Sanhita Baruah

#18. And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the 'Lord of Phosphorus,' and Lucifer, or 'Light-Bearer,' is in us: it is our Mind

H. P. Blavatsky

#19. Preoccupied with a single leaf, you won't see the tree.
Preoccupied with a single tree, you'll miss the entire forest.

Takuan Soho

#20. I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.

William Faulkner

#21. Sometimes our greatest fears are not very far from us rather they are laying right next to us.

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#22. When you look at a tree, se it for its leafs, its branches, its trunk and the roots, then and only then will you see the tree

Takuan Soho

#23. When this No-Mind has been well developed, the mind does not stop with one thing nor does it lack any one thing. It appears appropriately when facing a time of need.

Takuan Soho

#24. One may explain water, but the mouth will not become wet. One may expound fully on the nature of fire, but the mouth will not become hot.

Takuan Soho

#25. Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.

Takuan Soho

#26. The Buddha and all sentient beings are not two.

Takuan Soho

#27. But you can live in the most democratic country on earth, and if you're lazy, obtuse or servile within yourself, you're not free.

Ignazio Silone