"When you try to understand everything, you will not understand anything. The best way is to understand yourself, and then you will understand everything."

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Source : Shunryū Suzuki, Trudy Dixon, Richard Baker (2006). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.136, Shambhala Publications

Shunryu Suzuki

#Trying Quotes #Way Quotes #Awareness Quotes

“The minds of men are at last aroused; reason looks out and justifies her own, and malice finds all her work is ruin.”

Source : Ralph Chaplin, Ben Hur Lampman, Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. Dept. of Research and Education (1971). “The Centralia case: three views of the Armistice Day tragedy at Centralia, Washington, Novemeber 11, 1919: The Centralia conspiracy”, Da Capo Pr
“Easy to keep faith. God is good. Only one mistake he made. Free will, therefore can't intervene unless we ask, but gospels show, when we ask we must believe we will be answered. Then all manner of things will be well.”
“You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'”
“When you first think of making a monster movie you have to realize that a lot of people may be down on you because there is a big prejudice against such films.”

Source : Interview with Brent Simon, www.ign.com. March 8, 2007.
“When virtue is pictured as innocence and innocence equated with childlikeness, the implication is obviously that knowledge and experience are no longer media of goodness, but have become in themselves contaminating. This is a very despairing outlook, in its way as black as Augustine's original sin, for it supposes that original goodness will in all likelihood be defiled...It surrenders the attempt to represent virtue in a mature phase.”
“Our forbears worked hard this difficult land, and their reward was the freedom and independence of self-sufficiency.”
“The memory fades, and Iâ€™m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words.”
“Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don't think that there are good drugs or that ***** is good. Nor cigarettes. No addiction is good. I include alcohol. The only good addiction is love. Forget everything else.”

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