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Activity Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki
- If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing in nothing, believing…
- Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.
- The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking; we stop emotional…
- It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.
- Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.
- To cook is not just to prepare food for someone or to cook for yourself; it is to express your sincerity. So when you cook…
- Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.
- When you accept everything, everything is beyond dimensions. The earth is not great nor a grain of sand small. In the realm of Great Activity…
More Activity Quotes
- In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society… — Karl Marx
- In any activity, we have to know what to expect, how to reach our objectives and what capacity we possess for the… — Paulo Coelho
- For our personal advancement in virtue and truth one quality is sufficient, namely, love; to advance humanity there must be two, love… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen… — Roger Bannister
- If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging. — Alan Bennett
- Customer service is just a day-in, day-out ongoing, never-ending, unremitting, persevering, compassionate, type of activity. — Unknown Author
- Psychology teaches us at every step that though two types of activity can have the same external manifestation, whether in origin or… — Lev S. Vygotsky