As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Every dog hath its day. ~English Proverb
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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A narrow river is soon rowed, a shallow ocean measured, a small mind stirred. ~Swedish Proverb
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. ~Zen Proverb
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If you believe everything you read, better not read. ~Japanese Proverb
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To set up what you like against what you do not like, this is the disease of the mind. ~Zen Proverb
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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The bad stuff remains with its owner until some fool comes to buy it. ~Arabic Proverb
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~Zen Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~Zen Proverb
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Don't bite the hand that feeds you. ~English Proverb
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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Better give a penny then lend twenty. ~Italian Proverb
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostrate before the temples of the gods, nor in sprinkling altars with the blood of beasts but rather in being able to look upon all things with a mind at peace. ~Lucretius
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Tantric Zen is for the individual who is in love with both the finite and the infinite, who gets a kick out of this weird transitory world and at the same time, wants to step beyond it. ~Frederick Lenz
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. ~Zen Proverb
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo. ~Zen Proverb
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One of the things that always fascinated me about the Renaissance was that it was a time both of great scientific discovery and also of superstition and belief in magic. And so it was a period in which Galileo invented the telescope, but also a time when hundreds were burned at the stake because people thought they were witches. ~Marie Rutkoski
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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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Earth is dearer than gold. ~English Proverb
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Silence is a fence around wisdom. ~German Proverb
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Do not miss your children's childhood. Do not be away 200 nights a year as I was. Do not put strains on your marriage or family. ~Joe Scarborough
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Wisdom begins with the fear of God. ~Irish Proverb
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