Good as drink is, it ends in thirst. ~Irish Proverb
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Those who wish to sing always find a song. ~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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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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Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent. ~Swedish Proverb
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen 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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What may be done at any time will be done at no time. ~Scottish Proverb
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One may go a long way after one is tired. ~French 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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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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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. ~Zen Proverb
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Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it. ~East African Proverb
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A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments. ~Natalie Clifford Barney
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic Proverb
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Pure water is the world’s first and foremost medicine. ~Slovakian Proverb
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If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? ~Zen Proverb
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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen Proverb
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All I can say right now is the U.S. government is not going to be able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and it cannot be stopped. ~Edward Snowden
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He who fears something gives it power over him. ~Moorish Proverb
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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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