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Vodka goes well with a wintery perspective. Nothing else provokes such presentiments of falling snow except, for some, the communist seizure of the state.


Michèle Bernstein


#communist #seizure #snow #vodka #winter

To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.


Dag Hammarskjöld


#path #zen #zen

When the mind is exhausted of images, it invents its own.


Gary Snyder


#dharma #gary #mind #snyder #zen

Then we’re just sitting there, staring at each other. Which has been happening a lot lately. It’s like whatever wall there was between us, however she was holding herself back from me . . . all of that pretense is gone. “And when you find a soul mate,” Sara says, “it’s undeniable. You have to be together.” “That’s my philosophy.” I look back at her. “You have to go with the flow.” “Exactly. I think the universe guides you to make the right choices.” “Do you believe in fate?” “I guess, but . . . it’s more about creating the life you want so you can make that fate a reality. You know?


Susane Colasanti


#life #love #philosophy #relationships #zen

Too lazy to be ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.


Ryokan


#buddhist #hermit #japan #japanese #monk

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.


Jon J. Muth


#neighbors #spelling #zen #ocean

The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?


Confucius


#wisdom #zen #zen

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.


Lucius Annaeus Seneca


#dissociation #mind #stoicism #transcendence #zen

Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas.


Kobayashi Issa


#flies #zen #zen

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?


D.T. Suzuki


#transcendence #universe #zen #zen