"A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'"

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Source : Philip Kapleau (1980). “Zen: dawn in the West”, Doubleday

Philip Kapleau

#Fun Quotes #Helping Quotes #Hell Quotes

“It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are.”
“Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.”
“Sometimes you want to make your own experiences.”
“About 30 million people see me every week - I'm a happy man.”
“We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.”
“Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.”
“Gossip and slander are not victimless crimes. Words do not just dissipate into midair. . . . Words can injure and damage, maim and destroy - forcefully, painfully, lastingly. . . . Plans have been disrupted, deals have been lost, companies have fallen, because of idle gossip or malicious slander. Reputations have been sullied, careers have been ruined, lives have been devastated, because of cruel lies or vicious rumors. . . . Your words have such power to do good or evil that they must be chosen carefully, wisely, and well.”
“here are the top three global resources getting scarcer in the twenty-first century: ozone layer, rain forest, people eager to read the fiction of others. That's right, folks. For the first time in I believe written history, there are far more fiction writers on earth than fiction readers.”

Source : Sandra Tsing Loh (2002). “A Year in Van Nuys”, Three Rivers Press

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