"The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more……" — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
"The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede."
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Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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Eternity is the Absolute present.
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You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
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I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
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When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a…
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When mountain-climbing is made too easy, the spiritual effect the mountain exercises vanishes into the air.
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We teach ourselves; Zen merely points the way.
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Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.
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Art always has something of the unconscious about it.
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The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
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That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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