"When we become truly ourselves, we just become……" — Shunryu Suzuki
"When we become truly ourselves, we just become a swinging door, and we are purely independent of, and at the same time, dependent upon everything."
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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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Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this…
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To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere.…
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We become truly personal by loving God and by loving other humans... In its deepest sense, love is the life,…
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We who are members of the Communist Party repudiate the exclusive identification of democracy with capitalism. We declare that democracy…
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Before His gaze all falsehood melts away. This encounter with Him, as it burns us, transforms and frees us, allowing…
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At the core, there is one simple, overarching reason why so many people remain unsatisfied in their work and why…
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We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that…
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What is difficult to understand is that without conscious effort, nothing is possible. Conscious effort is related to higher nature.…
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If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before…
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of…
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In order for us to become truly happy, that which we can become, we must become.
— Abraham Maslow
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Most people think of love as some sort of power outside of themselves that will "take them away from all…
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