"Can the water in the valleys ever stop and rest? When the water finally reaches the sea, it becomes great waves."

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Source : Francis Harold Cook, Francis Dojun Cook, Eihei Dogen (1978). “How to Raise an Ox: Zen Practice as Taught in Master Dogen's Shobogenzo”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

Francis Harold Cook

#Sea Quotes #Water Quotes #Valleys Quotes

“In elementary and middle school, I threw kids against the wall. I rubbed their heads in the dirt at recess. I bit them. I even knocked teeth out.”
“I'm just trying to portray what I find ironic or humorous.”
“How can a person live without love?”
“Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.”
“What are you gonna fill your life up with when you don't have that ultimate satisfaction or peace in your life? You try to fill it up with wealth, pleasure, honor, power, sex, drugs and Rock and Roll to try to feel good.”
“I write my songs usually while I'm walking around. Or in a car. Or in a bus, a plane, something like that. I jot down lyrics wherever I am. Usually it's on a vomit bag on an airplane or something. I just look for a pen.”

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“I don't believe in social equality, and they know it.”
“I would cook it, and look at the pictures and masturbate.”

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