"According to Eshin's Essentials of Salvation, the Ten Pleasures are but a drop in the ocean when compared to the joys of the Pure Land."

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Yukio Mishima

#Ocean Quotes #Land Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Respect yourself. Try to remember that not everything in life can be perfect. You will make mistakes. That's inevitable. But you are not ugly. You will only be ugly when you behave in an ugly way.”
“We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.”
“A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.”
“When we really let go, we become everything. At that point we are identified with all things: the flower, the oak tree, the morning star.”

Source : Dennis Genpo Merzel (1991). “The Eye Never Sleeps: Striking to the Heart of Zen”, Shambhala Publications
“Art is the daughter of pleasure.”
“I didn't know feminism was actually a thing until I left home and found out the country didn't run the way my mom's house did,”
“A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.”

Source : Steven Galloway (2009). “The Cellist of Sarajevo”, p.60, Atlantic Books Ltd
“My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.”

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