"If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world."

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Source : Reginald Horace Blyth (1960). “Zen and Zen Classics”

Reginald Horace Blyth

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“For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.”
“When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.”
“The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy comes to is a decent baby. That is what we all hope will be the end product of this stress. It is customary, at the end of a pregnancy, to have for your pains a decent baby.”
“I must have some sort of record in failing to get into the charts.”
“I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii”
“Working with passion is an engine that is unbelievable. A person with drive and passion does three times the job of another person. But it is not so much the quantity of the job; that is not the point. The point is that they draw crowds; they have followers; they push, and lead, and so achieve much more.”

Source : Dov Seidman (2011). “How: Why How We Do Anything Means Everything”, p.295, John Wiley & Sons
“As long as I am this or that, I am not all things.”
“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.”

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