"We do not exist for the sake of……" — Shunryu Suzuki
"We do not exist for the sake of something else. We exist for the sake of ourselves."
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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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More Exist Quotes
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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
— Aristotle
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But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be…
— Aristotle
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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for…
— Aristotle
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
— Karen Armstrong
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
— Mary Kay Ash
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist…
— Saint Augustine
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God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
— Saint Augustine
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Men exist for the sake of one another.
— Marcus Aurelius
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While I am reluctant to cite sexism as a political issue, sexism certainly can exist.
— Michele Bachmann
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A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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