Fingers Quote by D.T. Suzuki Download Open image “To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.” — D.T. Suzuki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fingers Moon Needed Thinking Woe
When finger point at moon, don't look at finger or you'll miss the moon. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I am a finger pointing to the moon. Don't look at me; look at the moon. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“When you point a finger at the moon to indicate the moon, instead of looking at the moon,the stupid ones look at your finger.” — Mao Tse-tung Copy Share Image
As the old Zen saying reminds us, the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. — Helen Palmer Geisel Copy Share Image
A finger points at the moon, but the moon is not at the tip of the finger. Words points at the truth, but the… — Huineng Copy Share Image
When the sage points at the moon, all that the idiot sees is the finger. — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger,… — Huineng Copy Share Image
Religions should be understood as only the fingers that point to the moon, not the moon itself. — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
The worst passion we mortals cherish is the desire to possess. Even when we know that our final destination is a hole not more… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Copying is slavery. The letter must never be followed, only the spirit is to be grasped. Higher affirmations live in the spirit. And where… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
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… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
The mistake consists in our splitting into two what is really and absolutely one. Is not life one as we live it, which we… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Until we recognize the SELF that exists apart from who we think we are - we cannot know the Ch'an ( ZEN ) MIND — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Zen abhors repetition or imitation of any kind, for it kills. For the same reason Zen never explains, but only affirms. Life is fact… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things. — Fergus Henderson Copy Share Image
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the… — Ida B. Wells Copy Share Image
The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions-… — Pam Brown Copy Share Image
Sam reached his hand toward mine and I automatically put my fingers in his. With a guilty little smile he pulled my hand toward… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I take the seashell from my jeans pocket and rub my fingers across its silken, indented surface, shallow as my own open hand. This… — Katrina Kenison Copy Share Image
The world belongs to those who think and act with it, who keep a finger on its pulse. — William Ralph Inge Copy Share Image
Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
[Sport officials] blocked their support of us. But those individuals [ Muhammad Ali, the Jim Browns, the Bill Russells, Kareem Abdul Jabbar ] were… — John Carlos Copy Share Image
Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image