"The Way is basically perfect. It doesn't require perfecting."

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Source : Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.29, Macmillan

Bodhidharma

#Perfect Quotes #Way Quotes

“America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.”
“Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem.”
“What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one's life and will hopefully touch others as well.”
“Well, Daddy, I used to believe that artists went crazy in the process of creating the beautiful works of art that kept society sane. Nowadays, though, artists make intentionally ugly art thatâ€™s only supposed to reflect society rather than inspire it. So I guess weâ€™re all loony together now, loony rats in the shithouse of commercialism.”
“I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.”
“Only Dunlop has seen more rubber than I have”
“Great defense consists of 3 R's: read, react, and rotate.”
“We don't call war hell because it is fought without restraint. It is more nearly right to say that, when certain restraints are passed, the hellishness of war drives us to break with every remaining restraint in order to win. Here is the ultimate tyranny: those who resist aggression are forced to imitate, and perhaps even to exceed, the brutality of the aggressor.”

Source : Michael Walzer (2015). “Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations”, p.50, Basic Books

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