"Reciting part of a sutra with the desire to benefit others is like reciting a recipe in the hope it will prevent people from starving."

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Source : Bassui Tokusho, Arthur Braverman (2002). “Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

Bassui Tokusho

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“Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are.”
“The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays cast so many shadows that the day creates more illusion than all the veiled truth of the night.”

Source : Amelia Atwater-Rhodes (2008). “Demon in My View”, p.1, Laurel Leaf
“The Capitalist system with its exploitation of those who are economically weak, with its robbery of the workers labour power, with its unethical way of appraising human beings by the number of things and the amount of money he possesses, instead of by their internal value and their achievements, must be replaced by a new and just economic system, in a word by German Socialism.”

Source : "Tradition & Revolution: Collected Writings of Troy Southgate" edited by Patrick Boch, Jacob Christiansen and John B. Morgan, UK, Arktos Media, (p. 66), 2010.
“Education isn't a magic pill. There is no magic pill. But the closest we have is practical expertise and relentless drive.”
“In Othello, Othello kills Desdemona, but no one reads that play as a model for their own behavior. In Lou Reed's case, you're listening to a song, and in my case you're reading about a life. Like Lou, I trust my audience to make their own moral determinations.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Christ said, The Truth shall make you free, but Truth is not found once and forever. Truth is eternal, and the quest for Truth must also be eternal.”

Source : Max Heindel (1920). “The Rosicrucian Cosmo-conception: Or, Mystic Christianity ; an Elementary Treatise Upon Man's Past Evolution, Present Constitution and Future Development”, p.23, Lulu.com
“My vision for Kentucky is a Commonwealth where there is so much economic opportunity, and our quality of life is so high, that people who are born here can stay here, and people who aren't fortunate enough to be born in Kentucky, can look forward to locating here.”
“If a musician cares about what he or she is doing, and you show up and care, you can go some place. That will never change. There are a number of ways to approach this, and my favorite is the way we're doing it now - just talking.”

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