January 24, 2011

• Zen Quotes

  So I found this book, The Little Zen Companion, it has a lot of cool quotes

   

   

   

  “I’m not young enough to know everything – JM Barrie

  The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere- Empedocles

  Love God and do what you will- St. Augustine

  Our life is frittered away by detail…simplify, simplify-Thoreau

  If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark- St. John of the Cross

  Every exist is an entry somewhere else-Tom Stoppard

  Everyday is a good day– Yun-Men

   

  We consider bibles and religions divine—

  I do not say they are not divine,

   

  I say they have all grown out of you,

  and may grow out of you still,

   

  It is not they who give the life, it is you

  who give the life,

   

  Leaves are no more shed from the trees,

  or trees from the earth, than they are shed out of you

  Walt Whitman

   

  I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry-John Cage

  Anything more than the truth would be too much-Robert Frost

   

  To ask the hard question is simple–W.H. Auden

   

   

   

   

   

   

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