Home Quote by Ruth Ozeki Download Open image “Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.” — Ruth Ozeki ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Home
Do not make this practice a source of pressure, compulsion, anxiety or pride. It is none of these. Zazen is simply a way to… — Brenda Shoshanna Copy Share Image
Zazen is an activity that is an extension of the universe. Zazen is not the life of an individual, it's the universe that's breathing. — Dogen Copy Share Image
Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“One may practice zazen for twenty, thirty, even fifty years, and go through failures and frustrations, but every defeat and time of despair is… — Katsuki Sekida Copy Share Image
Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice;… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special. — Kodo Sawaki Copy Share Image
What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
“Zazen is the dragons roar. This dragons roar is the wind passing and whistling through a hollow tree. This can be a metaphor for… — Shoryu Bradley Copy Share Image
The uniqueness of zazen lies in this: that the mind is freed from bondage to all thought forms, visions, objects, and imaginings, however sacred… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is not conscious… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Time plays tricks on mothers. It teases you with breaks and brief caesuras, only to skip wildly forward, bringing breathtaking changes to your baby's… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Everything seemed to grow blacker as I sat there, except for the fireflies whose tiny pulsing lights drew arcs through the dark summer air.… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
That's what it feels like when I write, like I have this beautiful world in my head, but when I try to remember it… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Premonitions are coincidences waiting to happen,” he said, without looking up. “I” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without books.” — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now! — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Do not think that time simply flies away. Do not understand “flying” as the only function of time. If time simply flew away, a… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“INSTRUCTIONS FOR ZAZEN First of all, you have to sit down, which you’re probably already doing. The traditional way is to sit on a… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“this feeling of alive is not so easy to experience. Even although life is a thing that seems to have some kind of weight… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
It was really a means-of-production problem. It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on… — Judith Ellen Foster Copy Share Image
I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my… — Jane Powell Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are. — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
Most days, I go home and I feel rejuvenated. I feel ebullient. — Siddhartha Mukherjee Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
As a child, I had a lot of older gay men taking care of me. There's a trust there. I feel like little girls… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
![“What is called zazen is sitting on a zafu [pillow] in a quiet room, absolutely still, in the exact and proper position and without uttering a word, the mind empty of any thought, good or wicked. It is continuing to sit peacefully, facing a wall, and nothing more. Every day.” quote by Taisen Deshimaru](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/653/taisen-deshimaru-20366_continuing_what-is-called-zazen-is-sitting-on-a-zaf_2735163.jpg)
![“I don't like being away from home. That's one reason why I don't work as much as I used to [when I started my career], because so many things are on the road. I just don't want to be away from my husband, my dogs and my home. I don't sing that much any more because that also takes you on the road.” quote by Jane Powell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/07c/jane-powell-36243_away-from-home_i-don-t-like-being-away-from-home-that-s_278.jpg)
