Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Quotes

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• Eternity is the Absolute present.
• You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
• I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
• When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered…
• When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.
• We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
• The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal,…
• Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.
• Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
• The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
• Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
• Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
• That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.
• In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment…
• The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience,…
• The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
• The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order…
• Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
• The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.
• The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.

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