"If only you could hear the sound of snow"

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Source : Hakuin Ekaku (2010). “Wild Ivy: The Spiritual Autobiography of Zen Master Hakuin”, p.51, Shambhala Publications

Hakuin Ekaku

#Snow Quotes #Sound Quotes

“You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?”
“Most Muslims don't obey the order of god to kill infidels. This is why I say Muslims have more morality than their god.”
“I don't really look at myself as a role model. And I just am the way I am and if people want to look up to me, they do. By no means do I like to give a negative image either.”
“You can't live with letting your feelings guide you, you'll get smooshed.”
“I think they will never really enjoy true democracy in China.”
“The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.”
“When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.”
“Criticism is concerned with evaluation. There may be evaluative principles implicit in this or that form of theory, but theory in and of itself is not prescriptive.”

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