Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Quotes
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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
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I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
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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…
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When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.
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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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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,…
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Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.
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Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
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The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
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Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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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…
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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,…
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The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
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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…
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Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
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The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.
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The mind has first to be attuned to the Unconscious.
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