"Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing."

-- D.T. Suzuki

#Experience Quotes #Substance Quotes #Facts Quotes

“Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.”
“Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.”
“I like the boundaryless potential you get when you make work for a context that is open to interpretation. Thinking about an art context is too claustrophobic, though. I always hope that at least half my audience is not directly related to the art world. I use art as a balancing act. It's a good way of avoiding everyday chores and social obligations.”

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“I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.”
“When we have God in clear focus, His powerful presence eclipses our fear.”
“Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others.”
“She told me her father taught her to live life way beyond the cusp of it, way out in the outer reaches where most people never had the guts to go, where you got hurt. Where there was unimaginable beauty and pain ... They were always reminding themselves to stop measuring life in coffee spoons, mornings and afternoons, to keep swimming way, way down to the bottom of the ocean to find where the mermaids sang, each to each. Where there was danger and beauty and light. Only the now.”
“The zip on the pitch is very zippy”

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