"Zen goes directly to your own experience of the oneness of the universe, of your interconnectedness with all things. You learn to distrust whatever you clung to in your old sense of separation, and that realization can be the most liberating thing in your life, a freedom beyond anything you could have imagined."

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Source : Jean Smith (2007). “The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism”, p.8, Harmony

Jean Smith

#Freedom Quotes #Learning Quotes #Oneness Quotes

“Even if people just change two or three things that they are able to sustain over time, it makes quite a difference eventually.”
“Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven't happened just in my mind or in my soul. They happened while holding my son in the middle of the night, or watching the water break along the shore, or around my table, watching the people I love feel nourished in all sorts of ways.”
“The voices of the people are the voices of God.”
“The cool thing about being a writer is: you get to make stuff up. When I started wring about Vampires, I realized, I can take everything i did like about that mythology and anything I didn't like, I didn't have to; because until a real Vampire stands up and says, 'you've got it wrong,' it's anyone's game.”
“No compassion will be tolerated for the Jews. We deny the Popeâ€™s statement that there is but one human race. The Jews are parasites.”
“I'm not a city kind of guy. I'm happiest when I'm tromping through the woods.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Watching a Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountaintop. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?”
“Nothing is accomplished all at once, and it is one of my great maxims, and one of the most completely verified, that Nature makes no leaps: a maxim which I have called the law of continuity.”

Source : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1916). “New Essays Concerning Human Understanding with an Appealing...: Transtated from the Original Latin, French and German Writeen”

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