Places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories, pasts that others are not allowed to read, accumulated times that can be unfolded but like stories held in reserve, remaining in an enigmatic state, symbolizations encysted in the pain or pleasure of he body. "I feel good here": the well-being under-expressed in the language it appears in like a fleeting glimmer is a spatial practice. ~Michel de Certeau
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One who smiles rather than rages is always the stronger. ~Japanese Proverb
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As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. ~Zen Proverb
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Plaid is always cute and always will be. But only on the bottom. At the top, it makes you look like a farmer. ~Jen Lancaster
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The ways to the One are as many as the lives of men. ~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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As the big hound is, so will the pup be. ~Irish Proverb
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Every day man increases in new understanding. ~Arabic Proverb
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I am a believer in discipline; it takes a lot to do well. You need discipline for those little excursions into the chaotic that make life interesting. ~Linda Ronstadt
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Do not look for more honor than your learning merits. ~Jewish Proverb
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The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives. ~English proverb
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The fire of reeds is of rapid extinction. ~Arabic Proverb
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When the student is ready, the master appears. ~Zen Proverb
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The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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He makes his home where the living is best. ~Latin Proverb
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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~Zen Proverb
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Taoist Proverb
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Choose neither a woman nor linen by candlelight. ~Italian 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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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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Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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There is no meaning to a flower unless it blooms. ~Zen Proverb
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When you get there, there isn't any there there. ~Zen Proverb
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All of the significant battles are waged within the self. ~Zen Proverb
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When I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it's hard on me. Once you get used to regular scripture study, you miss it if you don't have it. It's like food; you have to have it. I know that I need the scriptures like I need food. I don't miss a regular meal, and I don't miss regular scripture study. ~Henry B. Eyring
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