"If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical language simply as a play upon words. Its full significance is revealed only when we approach it in a different manner, making our minds available to the new processes of inner perception which it suggests."

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Source : Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”

Robert Linssen

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“I developed a nutty attitude where I'd think, If some guy really loves me he doesn't care if I'm fat. I'd come up with all these stupid reasons why it would be OK to be fat.”
“Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.
“Natural thunder heralds the wetness of fresh water high clouds to quench the thirst of fields gone dry and parched, a messenger of blessed rain, but this was as dry as hell must be. My distraught perception refused to believe it, because of the insane suddenness with which it sounded, swelled and hit, and how casually it came to murder my child.”
“Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards.”
“If your intuition is telling you not to do something, then don't. Your intuition is not stupid.”
“I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.”
“I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.”

Source : Zell Miller (2005). “Zell Miller A Senator Speaks Out on Patriotism Values and Character”, p.49, Xulon Press
“On a clear day, rise and look around you and you'll see who you are on a clear day, how it will astound you that the glow of your being outshines every star! You feel part of every mountain, sea and shore. You can hear from far and near a world you've never heard before And on that clear day you can see forever more”

Source : "Song: 'On a Clear Day'". 1965.

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