One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked. ~Chinese Proverb
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish 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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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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Those who wish to sing, always find a song. ~Swedish Proverb
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The hardest work is to go idle. ~Yiddish 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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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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The silent man is the best to listen to. ~Japanese Proverb
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Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
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Talk doesn’t cook rice. ~Chinese Proverb
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For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit Proverb
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Oh, and I suppose the apples ate the cheese. ~Suzanne Collins
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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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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. ~Taoist Proverb
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A wise man hears one word and understands two. ~Yiddish 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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Fine feathers make fine birds. ~English 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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A woman either hates or loves, there is no third course. ~Latin 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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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~Zen Proverb
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A strange, terrific force unlike anything I've ever experienced is sprouting in my heart, taking root there, growing. Shut up behind my rib cage, my warm heart expands and contracts independent of my will, over and over. ~Haruki Murakami
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