Hakuun Yasutani famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality.
-- Hakuun Yasutani -
Whatever you can conceive or imagine is but a fragment of yourself.
-- Hakuun Yasutani
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Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
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Like all real treasures of the mind, perception can be split into infinitely small fractions without losing its quality. The weeds in a city lot convey the same lesson as the redwoods; the farmer may see in his cow-pasture what may not be vouchsafed to the scientist adventuring in the South Seas.
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I think being on Weeds, in general, makes it hard to think of me as Nemo anymore.
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It would be the greatest delight of the seraphs to pile up sand on the seashore or to pull weeds in a garden for all eternity, if they found out such was God's will. Our Lord himself teaches us to ask to do the will of God on earth as the saints do it in heaven: "Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
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To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.
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I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful
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I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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But I don't fit. Your family hates me. I make your life difficult." That's where she was wrong. "No, You're my family. And as for making my life difficult, you, Blaire Wynn, make my life complete.
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Fear less, hope more. Eat less, chew more. Talk less, say more. Hate less, love more...
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