Nor is it otherwise- Alla Watts

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Seeing into one's own nature.- Hui-neng


The quieter you become, the more you can hear.- Baba Ram Dass

The mind should be as a mirror.- anon

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself. - Shunryu Suzuki

Water which is too pure has no fish.- Ts'ai Ken T'an

Ten thousand flowers in spring
the moon in autumn,
a cool breeze in summer,
snow in winter.
If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things,
this is the best season of your life.- Wu-men

One moon shows in every pool, in every pool the one moon.- anon

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought. - Basho

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.- Ugo Betti

To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.- Chuang-tzu

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?- Dogen

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. - Dogen

And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.- T.S. Eliot

When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much. - Fen-Yang

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.- Lao Tzu

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.- Robert M. Pirsig

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.- Yasutani Roshi

Natural and super-natural, temporal and eternal - continuums, not absolutes.- Albert Schweitzer (paraphrased)

We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.- D. T. Suzuki

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.- Shunryu Suzuki

Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.- anon

These various activities are not relevant to the issue of birth and death; they are all "other things."- Chien-ju

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