"When the bird of the heart begins to sing, too often will reason stop up her ears."

-- Hans Christian Andersen

#Heart Quotes #Bird Quotes #Ears Quotes

“There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.”
“The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.”
“Love is how you stay alive, even after you are gone.”
“I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden”
“Happiness is a dry martini and a good woman ... or a bad woman.”
“I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and I hate Michigan.”
“Play against the Game, not your opponent.”
“Karma is not something pessimistic. If you think of karma as something wrong, you are seeing karma only according to what happened in the past. You look at the past and karma becomes a monster. So you should also look at karma in the present and future. Then karma becomes something very wide and really alive. Through karma you can understand what your destiny is. Destiny itself has no solid form; it's something you can create. You can create your life. That is why we study karma.”

Source : Dainin Katagiri (2008). “Each Moment Is the Universe: Zen and the Way of Being Time”, p.174, Shambhala Publications

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