"Most writers agree on the fact that Zen is not to be understood but to be lived; and far from being incompatible with the requirements of everyday life, Zen confers on it its own full revealing value."

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Source : Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”

Robert Linssen

#Everyday Quotes #Requirements Quotes #Facts Quotes

“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The gifts of the Gospel are given to strengthen the faith of the believer.”
“As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.”
“a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.”

Source : Luís de Camões (2008). “Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition”, p.45, University of Chicago Press
“We came in today with a chip on our shoulder to prove who we are.”
“Patience is not a virtue!”
“I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.”
“Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.”

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