"Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice."

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Source : Soko Morinaga, Belenda Attaway Yamakawa (2002). “Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

Soko Morinaga

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“At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey”
“I affirm that the crisis of the disc is a lure, it does not exist: the offer is intact, the increasing demand. But, each night, in the hangars of the music, the half of stock is stolen. Imagine the reaction of Renault vis-a-vis delinquents who would force the door daily to conceal the cars!”
“My goal is to make Italian food clean and accessible and beautiful and tasty, with simple ingredients that people can find at a local grocery store, because people don't want to go to a gourmet shop in search of items that will sit in their pantry for years after they use just a teaspoon or pinch of them.”
“Religion and science have a common ancestor - ignorance.”
“You don’t have to be part of a club to know Jesus. And you don’t? have to be part of a scene to know Jesus. And you don’t have to be perfect to know Jesus. You don’t even have to be semi-perfect to know Jesus. You just have to be willing, and open, and honest.”
“Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.”
“The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new problems. By this means, and by all other means, he should endeavor to make his first important discovery: he should discover his likes and dislikes, his taste, his own line.”
“Would your city weep if your church did not exist?”

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