"The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection."

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Source : Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.21, Random House

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“...Winter, the aged chief, Mighty in power, Exiles the tender leaf, Exiles the flower.”

Source : Robert Fuller Murray, Andrew Lang (1894). “Robert F. Murray: His Poems”
“Fill in any figure you want for that boy (Mickey Mantle). Whatever the figure, it's a deal.”
“I'm trying to give people an idea of what black looks like and what white looks like before I introduce them to gray.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.”
“Scientists believe that the invention of clothing in Africa was a key factor in allowing our ancestors to migrate into colder climates and to spread across the globe.”
“Why don't they teach logic at these schools?”
“Economics is uncertain because its fundamental subject matter is not money but human action. That's why economics is not the dismal science, it's no science at all.”

Source : "The science of ignorance" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2008.
“the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color. Often at night there is lightning, but it quivers all alone. There is no thunder, no relieving rain. These are strange and breathless days, the dog days, when people are led to do things they are sure to be sorry for.”

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