"To rid the grass of weed, to get The whole root, Thick, tangled, takes a strong mind And desire - to make clean, make pure. The weed, tough As the rock it leaps against, Unless plucked to the last Live fiber Will plunge up through dark again. The weed also has the desire To make clean, Make pure, there against the rock."

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Source : Susan Porterfield, Lucien Stryk (1993). “Zen, poetry, the art of Lucien Stryk”, Swallow Pr

Lucien Stryk

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“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.”
“I have a profound dislike for showing off one's material wealth. This is insensitive and it is not what human hearts are made for. But what I like about China and sometimes miss in Europe is the entrepreneurial spirit of our young people, their ambition and dynamism.”
“We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“The membrane between where we are right now and a very different reality, is so much thinner than we like to think. Things can go back, and things can go to the side, and things can go to places where we might not even have been on guard that they might go. I think that if there is a great gift that this [Donald Trump] election gave us, is this sort of sense of vigilance, the sense that we have to remain on guard. We have to support our free press.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“No pleasure here on earth I find For in this world I'm bound to ramble.”

Source : "Song: 'Constant Sorrow'". 1951.
“Being in front of an audience makes me feel alive. Being with friends makes me feel alive. Iâ€™ve done some crazy stuff in my time and yet I can feel infinitely alive curled up on a sofa reading a book. So, what makes me feel alive? I guess itâ€™s realizing I am part of the world around me.”
“When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.”
“I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short.”

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