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Francis Harold Cook
"The Buddha is found in other people - even the ones we do not like very much." --
Source : Francis Harold Cook, Francis Dojun Cook, Eihei Dogen (1978). “How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Master Dogen's Shobogenzo”, p.57, Simon and Schuster
Francis Harold Cook
#People Quotes
#Found Quotes
“All of it seems like noise and false light, and all I want for tonight is quiet, the black and gray of a summer night, and a girl in a pink dress, beside me forever.”
“We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the eternal loss of God, we do know that many are so. God knows who they are.”
“It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say.”
“When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.”
“The whole point of team competition is to pick your teammates up,”
“One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.”
“The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.”
“When you inherit a segment that people grew up with, they are like, "This is not what I'm used to." It's hard. There's a period where you're trying to do what people are used to and fulfill what they miss. After a while you just have got to shake it off and be yourself.”
