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Thing Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki
- If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one…
- When you do not realize that you are one with the river, or one with the universe, you have fear. Whether it is separated into…
- Our tendency is to be interested in something that is growing in the garden, not in the bare soil itself. But if you want to…
- Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.
- Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen.
- Strictly speaking, there is no such thing as an enlightened person. There is only enlightened activity.
- When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.
- We do not slight the idea of enlightenment, but the most important thing is this moment, not some day in the future. We have to…
- While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything…
- In your big mind, everything has the same value...In your practice you should accept everything as it is, giving to each thing the same respect…
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
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- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale
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- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong