"Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have this moment rather than with rituals or rules of behavior"

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Source : Bill Porter, Red Pine (2009). “Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China”, p.11, Counterpoint Press

Bill Porter

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“Im not really sure what social message my art carries, if any. And I dont really want it to carry one. Im not interested in the subject matter to try to teach society anything, or to try to better our world in any way.”
“Every team requires unity. A team has to move as one unit, one force, with each person understanding and assisting the roles of his teammates. If the team doesn't do this, whatever the reason, it goes down in defeat. You win or lose as a team, as a family.”
“Whatever other children learn in a year, let BahÃ¡â€™Ã children learn in a month. The heart of â€˜Abduâ€™l-BahÃ¡ longeth, in its love, to find that BahÃ¡â€™Ã young people, each and all, are known throughout the world for their intellectual attainments. There is no question but that they will exert all their efforts, their energies, their sense of pride, to acquire the sciences and arts.”
“A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate. The hour, some little time before sunset, and the place, the West Barricade, at the very spot where, a decade later, a proud tyrant raised an undying monument to the nation's glory and his own vanity.”
“Having an eating disorder doesn't show â€˜strength.â€™ Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long.Â Starving is not a â€˜dietâ€™ and throwing up isn't something that only extremely thin men or women do. Eating disorders do not discriminate..Neither does any other mental illness. These are deadly diseases that are taking lives daily. So please, let's be cautious of the words we use when discussing ED's and other mental illnesses.”
“I hope to be around past the 90's. I don't want to just be categorized as one of this era. My goal is to have a career that stands.”
“Da Vinci painted one Mona Lisa. Beethoven composed one Fifth Symphony. And God made one version of you.”
“I let the actors work out their ideas before shooting, then tell them what attitudes I want. If a scene isn't honest, it stands out like a sore thumb.”

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