"The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity."

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Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1948). “Zen in English literature and oriental classics”

Reginald Horace Blyth

#Shells Quotes #Stones Quotes #Taste Quotes

“While the worriers are worrying, the planners are planning and the accountants are figuring out why we can't afford it, I'm busy getting started.”
“The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.”

Source : Annals of an Abiding Liberal ch. 6 (1979)
“It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows, that they don't always wake up looking their best, that they have bad habits and annoying traits.”
“You will find men like him in all of the world's religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy a religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistance of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.”
“I think that we're all continually searching for who we are, and that's ever-evolving and changing.”
“When our lives are filled with peace, faith and joy, people will want to know what we have.”
“... the greatest act of love is to pay attention.”
“Sometimes, the advertising is better than the product. Nothing kills a bad product faster than good advertising. Everyone tries the thing and never buys it again.”

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