"Letting yourself simply experience your difficulties without getting caught up in thoughts about how much you dislike them and in wishes that you didn't have to deal with them in the first place will change your experience of difficulties."

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Source : John Daishin Buksbazen (2010). “Zen Meditation in Plain English”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

John Daishin Buksbazen

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“My parents, who were Communists, always pretended to be American patriots. You can always convince yourself you are: 'I love America, I just want it to be perfect, which it will be when it becomes a Soviet Communist state'. When the left called for 'liberation' what it really wanted was to erase the human slate and begin again. Like everybody else, I see things that need to be improved. I just am mindful of the fact that they can be made a lot worse.”
“The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.”

Source : Kate DiCamillo (2013). “The Essential Kate DiCamillo Collection”, p.639, Candlewick Press
“I think our culture is sick and tired of fluffy nonsense and people want something more sincere and heartfelt.”
“Playing sportÂ has become very important today, since it can encourage young people to develop important values such as loyalty, perseverance, friendship, sharing and solidarity.”
“I write only for my shadow which is cast on the wall in front of the light. I must introduce myself to it.”

Source : "The Blind Owl". Book by Sadegh Hedayat, 1958.
“I only translate authors whose work already interests me as a reader, and that's a decision I make based on multiple encounters with an author's work.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“How did I get to Hollywood? By train.”
“I had to create some good work habits and attitude.”

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