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Life Quotes by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
- 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…
- Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
- 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 truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
- Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.…
- Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules-this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us…
- We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life.
- The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle