Zen Attitude Quotes

#1. The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that of effortlessness.

Rajneesh

#2. No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over ... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.

Douglas Hofstadter

#3. Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.

Taisen Deshimaru

#4. Surreal. It was his word of the week. This must be one of the circles of hell Dante accidentally left off the list.

Cherie Priest

#5. Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read.

John Wooden

#6. We can live a life full and complete, thinking with our heads but living from our hearts.

Helen Hunt

#7. We are each responsible for our own emotional well being.

Alaric Hutchinson

#8. Whoever can't laugh doesn't deserve to be taken seriously...

Thomas Bernhard

#9. And all the ministers of the various types of local Baptists had declined to participate in retribution for Monroe's failure to believe in a God with severe limitations on His patience and mercy.

Charles Frazier

#10. Have the right attitude in advanced practice. Feel that you are always a beginner in Zen. They refer to it as "beginners mind". I feel I am a beginner, always; because it's true.

Frederick Lenz

#11. The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

Jefferson Davis

#12. I can watch a movie about a person that can make me feel depressed or remind me of something else, and then later on I'll get an idea for a song.

Christopher Owens

#13. We know there is a problem with communication but we are not going to discuss it in front of the entire staff.

Robert Townsend

#14. Every human being is born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of learning.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#15. I sort of feel sorry for the next man who gets me. I may just kill him with passion. He'd better be strong and have a good heart!

Kirstie Alley

#16. I don't really have a pattern yet. I don't know if I'll develop one. As far as comedic integrity, I don't have integrity in general, comedic or otherwise.

Zach Galifianakis

#17. I am getting quite uneasy about him, though why I should I do not know, but I do wish that he would write, if it were only a single line

Bram Stoker

#18. Shareholder activism works when activists understand something about the characteristics of the business that the board doesn't.

Ben Horowitz

#19. It would almost be easier to have woken up and found that everything about her life was a lie, instead of just this one awful truth.

Debra Ginsberg

#20. Langston has been in love. Twice. His first big romance ended so badly that he had to leave

Rachel Cohn

#21. For Zen students a weed is a treasure. With this attitude, whatever you do, life becomes an art.

Shunryu Suzuki

#22. Clarity clattered into my thoughts and brought about a satori, an enlightenment, if you will.

Stuart Ayris