D. T. Suzuki Quotes
The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.
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When we don't have information, we go to the simplest outlook, to black and white. But then we have to lie to ourselves. Black is never as black as you're painting it and white is never as white.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.
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I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.
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Other kids had more talent, but I was the most focused.
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Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest.
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There will be no security in our world, no release from agonizing tension, no genuine progress, no enduring peace, until, in Shelley's fine words, 'reason's voice, loud as the voice of nature, shall have waked the nations'.
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People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.
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I love the whole aspect of music, especially the singing; I never get tired of finding new songs to sing and sing them in a way that's interesting for the public.
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In my life, there have been a lot of people who weren't there for me, so to now have people counting on me is awesome.
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Learning how to walk again was a process for me. It was some of the darker days of my life, but I've had many moments of my life where I've had to just kind of put my head down and work, and this was no different.
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But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.
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You have to take risks.
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You know, I don't think, you know, therapy never ends, really.
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If you knew when you were going to die, wouldn't you make your life more worthwhile?
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The only way to quieten me is to invite me to a tennis match.
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We suffer: the external world begins to exist...; we suffer to excess: it vanishes. Pain instigates the world only to unmask its unreality.
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God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!
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A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)
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A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.
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The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.
