"My greatest challenge has been to change the mindset of people. Mindsets play strange tricks on us. We see things the way our minds have instructed our eyes to see."

-- Muhammad Yunus

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“The transfiguration of matter occurs through wonder.”
“If I could have any power in the world, it would be super-metabolism. I would love to eat anything and not gain weight! That would be a great power. I would have an intravenous Guinness with me, everywhere I went! But I wouldn't want to know what my wife is thinking. It's a difficult power, yeah.”

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“Zen is really just a reminder to stay alive and to be awake. We tend to daydream all the time, speculating about the future and dwelling on the past. Zen practice is about appreciating your life in this moment. If you are truly aware of five minutes a day, then you are doing pretty well. We are beset by both the future and the past, and there is no reality apart from the here and now.”
“When we kiss, his lips on mine are like CPR-- breathing the life back into me.”
“Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.”
“That's the last thing I want to do is go on up there and mess up, you know, in front of America.”
“You planning top kill me with a Wiffle bat?" [Carson asked] "Yeah." "Why?" he asked. The bat was shaking in my tight grip. "Because I don't have my Minnie Mouse pillow.”
“The true meaning of the precepts is not just that one should refrain from drinking alcohol, but also from getting drunk on nirvana.”

Source : "Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui".

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