"If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything."

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Shunryu Suzuki

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“The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world â€”â€”- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West â€”â€”- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.”
“Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
“UNNATURAL CAUSES tears back the veil to show the socio-economic and racial inequities in health as well as the public policies that underpin them. Should be required viewing.”
“There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation!... A human being, Hastings, cannot resist theopportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.”
“The only way to say what abstract is, is to say what it is not.”
“I believe in helping our fellow man in need. I believe that reaching into your own pockets to help someone in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into somebody else's pockets to help your fellow man in need is despicable. And, or those of us who are Christians, I'm very sure that when God gave Moses the commandment Thou Shalt Not Steal, he did not mean ...unless you get a majority vote in Congress.”
“Jesus does not want us to say, dead, for, He said, all live unto Him, though they seem dead to us.”
“Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.”

Source : Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House

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