"When you paint Spring, do not paint willows,……" — Dogen
"When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots, but just paint Spring. To paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots is to paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - it is not yet painting Spring."
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83 Quotes by Dogen
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To study Buddhism is to study ourselves. To study ourselves is to forget ourselves.
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In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.
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If you do not get it from yourself, where will you go for it?
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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment.
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If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
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Working with plants, trees, fences and walls, if they practice sincerely they will attain enlightenment.
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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot…
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I love, love, love apricot baby food. My closet in the kitchen is filled with jars of it. I love…
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Orange strengthens your emotional body, encouraging a general feeling of joy, well-being, and cheerfulness. Orange vibration foods are: oranges, tangerines,…
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A springlike autumn's balmy breeze reaches afar. The sun shines on the house of a recluse South of the river;…
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All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow…
— Henry Austin Dobson
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All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only…
— John Selden
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by…
— Ezra Pound
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When you paint Spring, do not paint willows, plums, peaches, or apricots - just paint Spring.
— Dogen
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Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.
— Frances Mayes
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At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste…
— Isabel Allende
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Girls get screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things.…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Elsa's joke Where do baby apes sleep? In apricots!
— Jacqueline Wilson
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