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As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free.
If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing…
Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different,…
The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.
Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.
The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thursty.
In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there is no…
When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'
As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer…
When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But…
If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one…

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As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer… — Shunryu Suzuki
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story. — Tom Clancy
I try and intellectualize a lot, which she does as well obviously. She's very determined, I am as well. I like to… — Emma Watson
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over… — Genevieve Bujold
I don't like to intellectualize about my acting. — Genevieve Bujold
I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something. — Spike Jonze
The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is… — Ray Bradbury
Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize… — David Foster Wallace
Whenever you feel a negative emotion be alone in a room and just sit down with it and feel. Don't judge it,… — Bo Sanchez
Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't… — Alber Elbaz
Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a… — Ray Bradbury
Feminism freed my mind. Yoga freed my body. It's one thing to intellectualize self-love and another to embody it. — Melanie Klein

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