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Shunryu Suzuki has 132 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
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When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are free.
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If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I mean believing…
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Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different,…
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The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.
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Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.
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The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thursty.
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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…
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When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'
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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…
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When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But…
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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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One flower makes no garland.
— George Herbert
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Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is…
— Henry David Thoreau
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If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet....
— William Safire
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A grower of chrysanthemums awaited a visit from the emperor, who was coming to enjoy his blossoms, of which there were hundreds…
— John Templeton
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Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One…
— Robert Bly
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There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Being present. The mind is like a butterfly that flits from one flower to the next. Seldom do we find ourselves nestled…
— Denise Linn
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If you say to one flower, 'Grow,' but you water another, the first one won't grow.
— Stephen Covey
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Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do…
— Ina Garten
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When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere
— John O'Donohue
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Man, Wren. I’m impressed. No woman ever sent flowers to thank me. (Serre) Don’t be that impressed. I’m thinking she didn’t send…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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