Zen Master Suzuki Quotes

#1. A hungry stomach cannot hear. - Author: Jean De La Fontaine

#2. It illuminated a vision Dante could not have imagined in his wildest nightmares, nor Poe in the grasp of an uncontrollable delirium. - Author: Alan Dean Foster

#3. Within the context of Western music, jazz has always contained certain radical or revolutionary aspects. These are: improvisation, collective composition and individuality or the personal sound (based on amazing variations in sonority, timbre and pitch). - Author: Michael Snow

#4. A Zen master once said, "To go eastward one mile is to go westward one mile." This is vital freedom. We should acquire this kind of perfect freedom. - Author: Shunryu Suzuki

#5. Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves. - Author: Yotam Ottolenghi

#6. The grounds of your justification are the perfect works of Jesus Christ. We're saved by works, but they're not our own. - Author: R.C. Sproul

#7. You can't pay a landlord in dogma. - Author: Jodi Picoult

#8. I stole this from Zen Master Suzuki Roshi: If it's not paradoxical it's not true! - Author: C.B. Murphy

#9. My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style - Author: Maya Angelou

#10. Various polls have indicated that approximately 10% of Americans (25 million people) have seen them at close range so that details of the structure of the object can be discerned. - Author: Steven M. Greer

#11. Of course New York is the Mecca of style in America, but don't knock Phoenix - it's not as big, but there are lots of people with style there. - Author: Amar'e Stoudemire

#12. My life all-around is really different than a lot of other poets. Not poets that are parents, too, but just that I can hardly find anyone who works in the industries that I've worked in. - Author: Victoria Chang

#13. What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this. It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence. - Author: D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#14. Into each dance must be packed the panic and ecstasy of her last moment of life, for underneath was death. - Author: Edna St. Vincent Millay

#15. You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God. - Author: C.S. Lewis

#16. i am such a sensitive summer thing. - Author: Nayyirah Waheed

#17. If you don't have sex with me right now, I swear I will light you on fire and bury your body in the desert. - Author: Patricia Eimer

#18. In the mind of the beginner, all things are possible, But in the mind of the expert, only a few. Zen Master Suzuki-Roshi - Author: Barbara L. Jordan