"The entrance into Zen is the grasping of one's essential nature. It is absolutely impossible, however, to come to a clear understanding of our essential nature by any intellectual or philosophical method. It is accomplished only by the experience of self-realization through zazen."

-- Yamada Koun

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“I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only moderately moved. I almost never cry. It's not that I'm stronger than the ones with teary eyes, I'm weaker. They have courage. When all you are is skin and bones, feelings are a brave thing. I'm more of a coward. The difference is minimal though, I just use my strength not to cry. When I do allow myself a feeling, I take the part that hurts and bandage it up with a story that doesn't cry, that doesn't dwell on homesickness.”
“"The Church of England," I said, seeing that Mr. Inglesant paused, "is no doubt a compromise."”

Source : Joseph Henry Shorthouse (1902). “John Inglesant: A Romance ...”
“Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional”
“Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this.”
“Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are known by the fruits they bear: as a man begets a man, and a beast a beast, that society of men which constitutes a government upon the foundation of justice, virtue, and the common good, will always have men to promote those ends; and that which intends the advancement of one man's desire and vanity, will abound in those that will foment them.”

Source : Algernon Sidney (1794). “Life, Memoirs,&c. of Algernon Sydney”, p.112
“New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.”
“The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.”
“It was quite a challenge to make people eat crab ice cream.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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