Li Ching-Yuen famous quotes

Retain a calm heart, sit like a turtle, walk swiftly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog
-- Li Ching-Yuen

#Dog #Heart #Sleep

We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers nor the downward rush of the stream; sooner or later, everything comes to its fruition.
-- Li Ching-Yuen

#Time #Flower #Fruition

Every day, mindful practice. When the mind is disciplined then the Way can work for us. Otherwise, all we do is talk of Tao; everything is just words; and the world will know us as its one great fool.
-- Li Ching-Yuen

#Practice #Mind #World

Before I had studied Zen for thirty years, I saw mountains as mountains, and waters as waters. When I arrived at a more intimate knowledge, I came to the point where I saw that mountains are not mountains, and waters are not waters. But now that I have got its very substance I am at rest. For it's just that I see mountains once again as mountains, and waters once again as waters.
-- Li Ching-Yuen

#Knowledge #Years #Water

Don't let's go to the dogs tonight, For mother will be there.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite

If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on your fun, and you'll have a good life.

I've been living in Portland for five months and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I probably won't really know for years because that's how it works right? You don't really develop feelings about a place till you've left it. It's like a girl or a dog.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipped maiden And many a lightfoot lad.

If there is any way you can get colder than you do when you sleep in a bedding roll on the ground in a tent in southern Tunisia two hours before dawn, I don't know about it.

I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.

Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?