Sun Bu'er famous quotes

The secret of the receptive Must be sought in stillness; Within stillness there remains The potential for action.
-- Sun Bu'er

#Wise #Secret #Action

Cut brambles long enough, Sprout after sprout, And the lotus will bloom Of its own accord: Already waiting in the clearing, The single image of light. The day you see this, That day you will become it.
-- Sun Bu'er

#Cutting #Reflection #Light

When you've cooked the marrow of the sun and moon, The pearl is so bright you don't worry about poverty.
-- Sun Bu'er

#Loss #Moon #Worry

The relic from before birth Enters one's heart one day. Be as careful as if you were holding a full vessel, Be as gentle as if you were caressing an infant. The gate of earth should be shut tight, The portals of heaven should be first opened. Wash the yellow sprouts clean, And atop the mountain is thunder shaking the earth.
-- Sun Bu'er

#Heart #Yellow #Meditation

A springlike autumn's balmy breeze reaches afar. The sun shines on the house of a recluse South of the river; They encourage the December apricots To burst into bloom: A simplehearted person Faces the simplehearted flowers.
-- Sun Bu'er

#Flower #Autumn #Winter

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

Curs'd be that wretch (Death's factor sure) who brought Dire swords into the peaceful world, and taught Smiths (who before could only make The spade, the plough-share, and the rake) Arts, in most cruel wise Man's left to epitomize!

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

One of my secrets is to joke all the time.

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.

Action is the only reality; not only reality, but morality as well.

The world turns on our every action, and our every omission, whether we know it or not.

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.