There is no shop, book, or person, that gives you confidence; it comes through reconnecting with your true authentic self. ~Ralph Smart
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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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Only the crystal clear question yields a transparent answer. ~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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The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour. ~Japanese 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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Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them. ~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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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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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
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Do not seek reality, just put an end to opinions. ~Zen Proverb
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You must neither strive for truth nor seek to lose your illusions. ~Zen 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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If you are attached to anything, you surely will go far astray. ~Zen Proverb
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The starting point of my career in money management in 1973-74 was the time of the only true bear market any living non-Japanese investor has seen in major markets. Equities, real estate, you name it, everyone got run over. ~Paul Singer
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The lion believes that everyone shares his state of mind. ~Spanish Proverb
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Coffee has two virtues: it is wet and warm. ~Dutch Proverb
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Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and delight but of foulness, betrayal, and lassitude. Living was hateful, and death was no better, and from end to end of the universe this was the first and last and only truth. ~Philip Pullman
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A poor person is not he who has little, but he who needs a lot. ~German Proverb
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Not the wind, not the flag; mind is moving. ~Zen Proverb
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A cat has nine lives. ~Proverb
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What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes. ~Samuel Adams
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Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep for here There is such matter for all feelings: Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. ~Lord Byron
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Water which is too pure has no fish. ~Zen Proverb
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