"So actions themselves are not good and not bad; only the intention is important."

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Source : Stephen Mitchell (1994). “Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teaching of Zen Master Seung Sahn”, p.65, Grove Press

Stephen Mitchell

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“The boredom occasioned by too much restraint is always preferable to that produced by an uncontrolled enthusiasm for a pointless variety.”

Source : Osbert Lancaster (1958). “Here, of All Places”
“There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.”
“Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.”
“Men are strong, women are smart, but no matter how smart, their bellies are always there to betray women and that's their downfall.”
“What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?”
“Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.”
“How do you expect to learn to dance when you have not even learned to walk! And above the dancer is still the flyer and his bliss.”
“I believe people think as a group more often than we might realize or care to admit. We like to believe that we act as individuals and nothing more, but time and again - in corporations and business, in politics and religion, in fashion and culture, and in friendships and social circles - we think and do as one.”

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