Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink. ~Zen Proverb
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proverbiosAnd they need not cause you grief. As my Highland grandmother said, and she had the Sight-Tis not the dead ye have to be concerned about! Beware of the Living! And she was a wise woman. The dead are beyond your help or mine, poor things. But the living need us. Thirty souls at the least, Phryne, are still on that island to praise God who might now be angels-or devils. ~Kerry Greenwood
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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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Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb
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The path to inspiration starts upon the trails we've known; each stumbling block is not a rock, but just a stepping stone. ~Charles Ghigna
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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 begins the day you start a garden. ~Chinese Proverb
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You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
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A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb
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Good things come to those who wait. ~English Proverb
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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~Zen Proverb
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Life is the only thing worth living for. ~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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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~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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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen 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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They said to the wolf, "For what art thou following those poor little sheep?" He replied, "The dust upon which they tread is good for poor little eyes!" ~ Arabic 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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I don't think a movie today that captured all the things that we did in the seventies could come close, because it's like asking to recreate the seventies and the audience sensibilities and that's impossible. ~Paul Michael Glaser
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To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. ~Zen Proverb
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A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb
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A broken hand works, but not a broken heart. ~Persian 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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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it is dark. ~Zen Proverb
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