Zoketsu Norman Fischer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Okay, here is the uplifting part: Your life isn't and has never been about you....about what you accomplish, how successful you are or are not, how much money you make, what sort of position you ascend to,...or how much good you do for others or the world at large. Your life, like mine, and like everyone else's has always been about one thing: love.
-- Zoketsu Norman Fischer

#Uplifting #Successful #World
We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
-- Zoketsu Norman Fischer

#Space #Track #Creative
The student ends up ***** after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not the teacher.
-- Zoketsu Norman Fischer

#Teacher #Lust #Hanging On
When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.
-- Zoketsu Norman Fischer

#Knowing #Enemy #Vision
There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
-- Zoketsu Norman Fischer

#Thinking #Long #Looks
Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.
-- Zoketsu Norman Fischer

#Prayer #Wall #Mean
The student ends up lusting after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not the teacher.
-- Zoketsu Norman Fischer

#Teacher #Lust #Hanging On

What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.
The essence of trade unionism is social uplift. The labor movement has been the haven for the dispossessed, the despised, the neglected, the downtrodden, the poor.
As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.
Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.
A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.
If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.
A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.
The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.

Zoketsu Norman Fischer famous quotes

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