Learn your lines and don't trip over the furniture.
-SPENCER TRACY
(Advice to Young Actors)
Ken Boswell:I'm in a rut. I can't break myself of the habit of swinging up at the ball.
Yogi Berra:Then swing down.
The truth of a thing is the feel
of it, not the think of it.
-STANLEY KUBRICK
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
-ALEXANDRE DUMAS, fils
In baseball, you don't know NOTHING.
-YOGI BERRA
What is truth? I don't know and I'm sorry I brought it up.
-EDWARD ABBEY
I don't know. I don't care. And it doesn't make ny difference.
-JACK KEROUAC
To know when you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is disease.
-LAO TZU
Everyone is in the best seat.
-JOHN CAGE
A person who says, "I'm enlightened" probably isn't.
-BABA RAM DASS
When you seek it, you cannot find it.
-ZEN SAYING
The true way goes over a rope which is not stretched at any great height but just above the ground. It seems to be more designed to make men stumble than to be walked upon.
-FRANZ KAFKA
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
-BASHO
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
-ANDRÉ GIDE
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.
-ROBERT PIRSIG
You don't have to try, you just have to be.
-DAVID VISCOTT
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
-CONFUCIUS
I believe in God, only i spell it Nature.
-FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
The world is NOT to be put in order, the world IS order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
-HENRY MILLER
No snowflake falls in an inappropriate place.
-ZEN SAYING
Nature is not anthropomorphic.
-LAO TZU
Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.
-WOODY ALLEN
There is no way you can use the word "reality" without quotation marks around it.
-JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?
-TAISEN DESHIMARU
I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.
-ANAIS NIN
Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.
-UYESUGI KENSHIN
Die before ye die.
-MUHAMMAD
Die in your thoughts every morning and you will no longer fear death.
-HAGAKURE
There is no cure for birth and death, save to enjoy the interval.
-SANTAYANA
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
-KIERKEGAARD
Life happens too fast for you to ever think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
-KURT VONNEGUT
Life eludes logic.
-ANDRÉ GIDE
Life just is. You have to flow with it. Give yourself to the moment. Let it happen.
-JERRY BROWN
Life is suffering.
- THE BUDDHA
Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
-MARTIAL
The word "now" is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks.
-ARTHUR MILLER
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now" without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.
-JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET
There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now.
-EUGENE O'NEILL
The present moment is a powerful goddess.
-GOETHE
Nothing burns in hell but the self.
-THEOLOGICA GERMANICA
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
-ALAN WATTS
Before you study Zen, a bowl is a bowl and tea is tea. While you are studying Zen, a bowl is no longer a bowl and tea is no longer tea. After you've studied Zen, a bowl is again a bowl and tea is tea.
-ZEN SAYING
Tom Seaver:"Hey, Yogi, what time is it?"
Yogi Berra:"You mean now?"
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
-GEORGE CARLIN
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
-TAISEN DESHIMARU
There must be more to life than having everything!
-MAURICE SENDAK
Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
-AESOP
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
-THOREAU
Thinking doesn't seem to helkp very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
-KURT VONNEGUT
Symbols are just symbols; the thing's the thing.
-HOWARD OGDEN
The map is not the territory.
-ALFRED KORZBYBSKI
Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
-TOM ROBBINS
We cannot get grace from gadgets.
-J.B.PRIESTLY
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-PABLO PICASSO
One of the best things to come out of the hope computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
-FRANK HERBERT
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
-RABINDRANATH TAGORE
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
-SAINT-EXUPERY
Two monks were arguing about the temple flag. One said the flag moved, the other said the wind moved. Master Eno (638-713) overheard them and said, "It is neither the wind nor the flag, but your mind that moves." The monks were speechless.
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
Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist."
-TAISEN DESHIMARU
The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.
-HUANG PO
The art of the tea Way consists simply of boiling water, preparing tea and drinking it.
-RIKYU
In Judo, he who thinks is immediately thrown. Victory is assured to the combatant who is both physically and mentally nonresistant.
-ROBERT LINSSEN
How can you think and hit at the same time?
-YOGI BERRA
Thinking is what gets you caught from behind.
-O.J. SIMPSON
Think with the whole body.
-TAISEN DESHIMARU
To know and to act are one and the same.
-SAMURAI MAXIM
The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.
-BRUCE LEE
Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
-MARCUS AURELIUS
Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.
-DOSTOEVSKY
People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.
-ALBERT EINSTEIN
Action is the only reality; not only reality but morality as well.
-ABBIE HOFFMAN
Inaction may be the highest form of action.
-JERRY BROWN
Action should culminate in wisdom.
-BHAGAVAD GITA
Zen cannot be defined. It is not a "thing" to be surrounded or reflected by words. When the last word is trowelled into the prison it escapes and laughs away on the horizon.
-DAVID BRANDON
Zen is to have the heart and soul of a little child.
-TAKUAN
If you wish to obtain an orthodox understanding of Zen, do not be deceived by others. Inwardly or outwardly, if you encounter any obstacles kill them right away. If you encounter the Buddha, kill him.
-RINZAI
Zen has no business with ideas.
-D.T. SUZUKI
Zen is like looking for the spectacles that are sitting on your nose.
-ZEN SAYING
There are three kinds of
disciples: those who impart Zen
to others, those who maintain the temples and shrines, and then there are the rice bags and the clothes hangers.
-NYOGEN SENZAKI
Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.
-ANNE BANCROFT
Studying about Zen should never
be confused with practicing Zen,
just as studying aesthetics should not be confused with being an artist.
-T.P. KASULIS
Zen is simply a voice crying,
"Wake up! Wake up!"
-MAHA STHAVIRA SANGHARAKSHITA
Zen teaches nothing; it merely
enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.
-D.T.SUZUKI
Zen is a way of liberation, concerned not with discovering what is good or bad or advantageous, but what is.
-ALAN WATTS
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
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