The only Zen you find at the top of the mountain is the Zen you bring with you. ~Zen Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen Proverb
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Remain a child so that your children may always love you. ~Swedish 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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Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. ~Chinese Proverb
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A silent mouth is melodious. ~Irish Proverb
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Corn cannot expect justice from a court composed of chickens. ~African Proverbs
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The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law. ~Jewish Proverb
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In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her. ~Yayoi Kusama
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The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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Something will be there when the flood recedes. We know that. It will be those people now standing in the water, and on those rooftops, many black, many poor. Homeless. Overlooked. And it will be New Orleans, though its memory may be shortened, its self-gaze and eccentricity scoured out so that what's left is a city more like other cities, less insular, less self-regarding, but possibly more self-knowing after today. A city on firmer ground. ~Richard Ford
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The best place for criticism is in front of the mirror. ~English Proverb
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If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are. ~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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Good news always comes from far away. ~Yiddish Proverb
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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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If his mouth were silent another part of him would speak. ~Arabic 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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After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box. ~Italian Proverb
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Age is honorable and youth is noble. ~Irish Proverb
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He who eats until he is sick must fast until he is well. ~English Proverb
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Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening. ~Zen Proverb
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Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ~German Proverb
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Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories. ~Salma Hayek
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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