The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry—what am I?—is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
I confess that Magic teacheth many superfluous things, and curious prodigies for ostentation; leave them as empty things, yet be not ignorant… — Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa Copy Share Image
No tabloid will ever print the startling news that the mummified body of Jesus of Nazareth has been discovered in old Jerusalem.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been empty-handed the… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I wish I could just make you turn around, turn around and see me cry There's so much I need to say… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls. — John Hart Copy Share Image
It is not enough to want to make the effort and to say we'll make the effort. We must actually make the… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I feel very at home in an empty church. I feel the most protected. It's very mystical. — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
I couldn't imagine what it's like to be a journalist talking about music. You're left with empty descriptions; you probably have to… — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
“Don't drive a car in the dream, else you won't drive it on earth. Don't wish to become, else you won't become.… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is not poverty so much as pretence that harasses a ruined man--the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse--the… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Not thinking about anything is zen. Once you know this, walking, standing, sitting, or lying down, everything you do is zen. To… — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you,… — Meredith Willson Copy Share Image
Pessimists, we're told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast,… — Bob Lewis Copy Share Image
She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
What's worse: to be idle while someone dies, or to be exiled and empty-handed? — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Don't ever empty the bucket of mystery. Never let people define what you do. It's not about zigging when you should zag.… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
I'll be your mess,you be mine That was the deal that we had signed I bought a hazmat suit to clean up… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so… — Harold Geneen Copy Share Image
No American can understand the need for time -- that is, simply space to breathe. If you have ten minutes to spare… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
[Their love] had burned itself out, like a forgotten candle in an empty room, leaving behind a ravenous discontent. — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
As they were building that library in that school's gym [in the Breakfast Club], they built a rehearsal space for us. It… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Authentic gratitude is much more rare and precious than expressions of gratitude which are often empty courtesies or simply tactical ploys to… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white. — John Brown Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We're all influenced by everything unless we're locked in an empty room. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
We meet fellow humans throughout our travels,Become close - friends, dates, lovers.Always we are distanced againfrom death, geography, or meeting others,Only dialtone… — Patri Friedman Copy Share Image
I mean simply to say that I want my characters to suggest the background in themselves, even when it is not visible.… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?"… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing. — Richard O'Brien Copy Share Image
In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Christ exhausted the cup of God’s wrath. For all who trust in Him there is nothing more in the cup. It is… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The Savior desires to save us from our inadequacies as well as our sins. Inadequacy is not the same as being sinful… — Bruce C. Hafen Copy Share Image
English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows. — Denis Johnson Copy Share Image