As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~Zen Proverb
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Yes, God wants you to do signs and wonders. But the love of God manifested through you is what people really need. So you first must see His face. You must become so close to His very heartbeat that you can feel what others feel. ~Heidi Baker
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When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders. ~Tom Robbins
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No doctor is better than three. ~German Proverb
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Fortune is blind, but not invisible. ~French Proverb
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A nickel will get you on the subway, but garlic will get you a seat. ~American Proverb
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The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. ~Zen Proverb
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~Zen Proverb
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In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. ~Zen 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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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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He who hears music feels his solitude. ~French Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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Who begins too much accomplishes little. ~German Proverb
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Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. ~Zen Proverb
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Still water has no mind to receive the image of the migrating geese. ~Zen 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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The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien
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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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Friendship is a furrow in the sand. ~Tongan Proverb
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Whether the family goes on a spiritual basis or not, the alcoholic member has to if he would recover. The others must be convinced of his new status beyond the shadow of a doubt. Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker. ~William Griffith Wilson
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He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind. ~Zen Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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