"My true desire is to relieve others of their pain, though I myself may fall into hell."

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Source : Bassui Tokusho, Arthur Braverman (2002). “Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

Bassui Tokusho

#Pain Quotes #Fall Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I begin by considering an effect.”
“I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.”
“Especially from my experience as a quant in a hedge fund - I naively went in there thinking that I would be making the market more efficient and then was like, oh my God, I'm part of this terrible system that is blowing up the world's economy, and I don't want to be a part of that.”
“The whole time I was modeling, I had a place in Paris, and a place in New York, and I was really single.”
“I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.”

Source : "Chris Ofili: 'I wander deep into the forest - where it's scary'" by Mark Hudson, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 25, 2010.
“If your guidance is your ego, don't rely on luck for help. you sleep during the day and the nights are short. By the time you wake up your life may be over.”
“No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history.”
“I learned that the moment you want to slow down is the moment you should accelerate.”

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