"Think with your whole body." — Taisen Deshimaru

"Think with your whole body."

— Taisen Deshimaru

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18 Quotes by Taisen Deshimaru

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If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold,…
Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing…
To receive everything, one must open one's hands and give.
The body moves naturally, automatically, without any personal intervention or awareness. If we think too much, our actions become slow…
To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die…
Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort…
Think with the whole body.
Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you…
You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.
In a fight between a strong technique and a strong body, technique will prevail. In a fight between a strong…
Time is not a line, but a series of now-points.
The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.

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More Body Quotes

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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