"When mind and action are separate, zen is lost. We keep the two in sync by paying attention."

-- Philip Toshio Sudo

#Two Quotes #Mind Quotes #Attention Quotes

“The struggle I went through has value.”
“Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love; they never allow you to wound their self-esteem.”

Source : Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.93, Penguin
“People buy from people they trust and they trust people they like.”
“You act like getting pregnant is a disease you can catch from public toilets.”
“Vegetarian: Indian word for lousy hunter.”
“The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy. If Alaric himself had been introduced into the council of Ravenna, he would probably have advised the same measures which were actually pursued by the ministers of Honorius.”
“I go in the sea as little as I can. If there's a girl and I have to accompany her, then obviously I go (laughs)!”
“The fruit of solitude is increased sensitivity and compassion for others. There comes a new freedom to be with people. There is new attentiveness to their needs, new responsiveness to their hurts. Thomas Merton observes, 'It is in deep solitude that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brothers. The more solitary I am the more affection I have for them.... Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.”

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