Takuan Soho Quotes

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

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

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#3. I think you fall in love with someone when you least expect to. When it's the last thing you want. That's what's so great about it.

Katie Klein

#4. 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.

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#5. 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.

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#6. Not only did I seduce him, but I tied him up and rode him like he was my own personal amusement park ride.

Elle Kennedy

#7. It is hoped that by God's assistance, some of the continents in the Ocean will be discovered ... for the Glory of God.

Christopher Columbus

#8. 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

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

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#10. 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

#11. The sign of a good society is one that protect its weakest. The strong can always look after themselves.

Dave Courtney

#12. Sever the edge between before and after.

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#13. I'm not in a position to tell heavy people anything.

Tyra Banks

#14. 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.

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#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.

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#16. I really wanted to speak English because I started touring the world, and I wanted to communicate with people directly.

Miyavi

#17. Time is a precious commodity that should not be wasted doing things that are not important to you.

T.K. Oliver

#18. My valor is certainly going, it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out as it were, at the palms of my hands!

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#19. Spirituality is your original face; it is the discovery of your intrinsic nature.

Rajneesh

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

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

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#22. Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.

Edward Dahlberg

#23. At twenty-two, I had the callowest possible definition of interesting and, by the measure of my own calipers, was far from interesting myself.

Karen Joy Fowler

#24. 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.

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

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