"Everything you do is right, nothing you do……" — Shunryu Suzuki
"Everything you do is right, nothing you do is wrong, yet you must still make ceaseless effort."
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131 Quotes by Shunryu Suzuki
Shunryu Suzuki has 131 quotes on this site.
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
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When you say, "Wait a moment," you are bound by your karma; when you say "Yes I will," you are…
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If enlightenment comes first, before thinking, before practice, your thinking and your practice will not be self-centered. By enlightenment I…
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Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel…
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The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.
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Those who sit perfectly physically usually take more time to obtain the true way of Zen.
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The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thursty.
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few.... In the beginner's mind there…
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When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain…
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As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is…
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When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right…
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If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe…
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We live in a dominant culture of ceaseless Departure and Progress that has so far lasted two or three centuries.
— John Berger
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May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb…
— Winston Churchill
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You left , and my heart is a ceaseless sermon of loneliness.
— Jesse Tyler Ferguson
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At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles…
— Abraham Flexner
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The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit…
— William J. Brennan
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... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue…
— Albert Einstein
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Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless…
— Lewis Carroll
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Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
— Louise Brooks
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A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and…
— William Cowper
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