"For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives."

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Steven Erikson

#Years Quotes #Stones Quotes #Layers Quotes

“If you see the intersection of time and space, you experience complete freedom of being. This state of existence is completely beyond any idea of time, space, or being. In that liberated state you can see fundamental truth and the phenomenal world simultaneously. That is called Buddha's world. That is the place where all sentient beings exist, so you can stand up there and see all beings, myriad beings. Then you know very clearly, through your own emotional and intellectual understanding, how all beings exist.”

Source : Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.75, Shambhala Publications
“People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about having consideration for others, and not expecting anything back. That's the difference.”
“Having nerves and feeling the pressure just gets you focused and gets your concentration level where it needs to be. I harness that nervous energy into a positive way.”
“By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop.”
“Those that walk with fear will always be too busy hiding.”
“To see something marvelous with your own eyes-that's wonderful enough. But when two of you see it, two of you together, holding hands, holding each other close, knowing that you'll both have that memory for the rest of your lives, but that each of you will only ever hold only have an incomplete half of it, and that it won't ever really exist as a whole until you're together, talking or thinking about that moment ...that's worth more than one plus one. It's worth four, or eight, or some number so large we can't even imagine it.”
“For what is the best choice for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.”
“If a thing's worth doing, it's worth overdoing. (Lazarus Long)”

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