"The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality……" — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

"The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom."

— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

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43 Quotes by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki

Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki has 43 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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…
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…
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…
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.

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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
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Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
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