Muso Soseki famous quotes

When a garden is used as a place to pause for thought, that is when a Zen garden comes to life. When you contemplate a garden like this it will form as lasting impression on your heart.
-- Muso Soseki

#Heart #Garden #Religion

It is better to practice a little than talk a lot.
-- Muso Soseki

#Practice #Relaxation #Littles

Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is in itself liberating
-- Muso Soseki

#Helping Others #May #Awakening

When it's cold, water freezes into ice; when it's warm, ice melts into water. Similarly, when you are confused, essence freezes into mind; when you are enlightened, mind melts into essence.
-- Muso Soseki

#Art #Confused #Ice

Even if you have not awakened, if you realize that your perceptions and activities are all like dreams and you view them with detachment, not giving rise to grasping and rejecting discrimination, then this is virtually tantamount to awakening from the dream.
-- Muso Soseki

#Dream #Views #Giving

When there is no place that you have decided to call your own, then no matter where you go, you are always heading home.
-- Muso Soseki

#Home #Matter #Headings

The central benefit of Zen, in the context of ordinary ups and downs of life,is not in preventing the minus and promoting the plus,but in directing people to the fundamental reality that is not under the sway of ups and downs.
-- Muso Soseki

#Reality #People #Ordinary

If the wrong person preaches a right teaching, even a right teaching can become wrong. If a right person expounds a wrong teaching, even a wrong teaching can become right.
-- Muso Soseki

#Teaching #Wrong Person #Persons

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.

Could man be drunk for ever       With liquor, love, or fights, Lief should I rouse at morning       And lief lie down of nights. But men at whiles are sober       And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten       Their hands upon their hearts.

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

"We may talk what we please," he cries in his enthusiasm for the oldest of the arts, "of lilies, and lions rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d'or or d'argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plough in a field arable would be the most noble and ancient arms."

Be kind to your garden and be gentle on your back!

Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.

The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.