Tranquil State Quotes by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

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• Eternity is the Absolute present.
• 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…
• When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.
• We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
• The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of…
• Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.
• Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
• The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
• Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the…
• Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.

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