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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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If you want to control other people, first control yourself.
— Abu Bakr
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I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to…
— Charles Lyell
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They want to deceive their people first because now they are in a very shabby situation
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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The second effort was spreading the word among the people, first, in a bid to raise their morale, and second to instil…
— Hassan Nasrallah
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There is no reason why challenging themes and engaging stories have to be mutually exclusive - in fact, each can fuel the…
— Edward Zwick
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People first feel things without noticing them, then notice them with inner distress and disturbance, and finally reflect on them with a…
— Giambattista Vico
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Often when people first hear this part of the Secret they recall events in history where masses of lives were lost, and…
— Rhonda Byrne
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
— Abdolkarim Soroush
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My rule is always, People first and things second.
— Leo Buscaglia
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Missionary work isn't the only thing we need to do in this big, wide, wonderful Church. But almost everything else we need…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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I think if I had to put a finger on what I consider a good education, a good radical education, it wouldn't…
— Myles Horton
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Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then…
— Swami Vivekananda
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