Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine. ~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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When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna. ~Frederick Lenz
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The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's. ~Polish Proverb
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There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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Honesty is the best privacy policy. ~Internet Proverb
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Be brothers, and keep between you the accounts of merchants. ~Arabic Proverb
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Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive. ~Jose Marti
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There is never any end. There are always new sounds to imagine; new feelings to get at. And always, there is the need to keep purifying these feelings and sounds so that we can really see what we have discovered in its pure state. ~John Coltrane
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What is shocking and wrong is not [Lord Devlin's] idea that the community's morality counts, but his idea of what counts as the community's morality. ~Ronald Dworkin
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief. ~Proverb
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If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone. ~Daniel Keys Moran
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You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
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The basic philosophy of stoicism is that you have nothing real external to your own consciousness, that the only thing real is in fact your consciousness. ~Roger Avary
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You can out-distance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. ~Rwandan Proverbs
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Look down if you would know how high you stand. ~Yiddish Proverb
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Brancusi made me realise that what I had learned previously, the quick ways of doing things, was all wrong. It is a search you have to enter, into yourself. ~Isamu Noguchi
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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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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. ~Zen Proverb
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Man is harder than rock and more fragile than an egg. ~Yugoslav Proverb
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Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained. ~Aaron Burr
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down. ~Natalia Vodianova
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution, that this heart is huge, vast, and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there, as well as how much space. ~Pema Chodron
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If nothing is going well, call your grandmother. ~Italian Proverb
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When you throw dirt, you lose ground. ~Texan Proverb
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