"Whatever way you put it, I am here only because my world is here. When I took my first breath, my world was born with me. When I die, my world dies with me. In other words, I wasn't born into a world that was already here before me, nor do I live simply as one individual among millions of other individuals, nor do I leave everything behind to live on after me. People live thinking of themselves as members of a group or society. However, this isn't really true. Actually, I bring my own world into existence, live it out, and take it with me when I die."

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Source : Kōshō Uchiyama (1993). “Opening the Hand of Thought: Approach to Zen”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Kosho Uchiyama

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“I think that a solid team, solid communication, is the number one thing in life at all times.”
“It is steadily forgotten that health is a diathesis as much as is scrofula or syphilis and that each of these is a mode of growth.”
“Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it. Let the rest of your days be spent as one who has whole-heartedly committed his all to the gods and is thenceforth no man's master or slave.”
“The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.”
“All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.”

Source : "The Multi-Instrumentalist Returns: A Conversation With Andrew Bird". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.
“There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.”

Source : Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan (1999). “Awakening: A Sufi Experience”, Tarcher
“in mad people fear goes on constantly, night and day, wearing one ditch in the mind that all thoughts must travel in.”

Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.68, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Sacrifice is a demonstration of pure love.”

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