Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.
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Bruce Lee
..it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept. And then you start to hurry. You work faster and faster and every time you look up...
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Michael Ende
It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it's dense, isn't it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and...
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Alan W. Watts
It is a wretched thing that the young men of today are so contriving and so proud of their material posessions. Men with contriving hearts are lacking in duty. Lacking in duty, they will have no self-respect.
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Tsunetomo Yamamoto
Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master, and nobody had noticed. Still, i'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When i pass people in the hall at...
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Chuck Palahniuk
More Quotes By R.H. Blyth
The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.
The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.
Nothing divides one so much as thought.
The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them–these sticks, stones, feathers, shells–there is no Deity.
The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things.. .. When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living....
