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Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea

Book by Jaimal Yogis · 7 quotes · Fear, Sea, Bears

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“I guess even the prettiest things eventually end up stinking. Everything does. We all will die and rot and decay and be reborn as dirt or flowers or worms, or polar bears who will drown because their ice is all melting, or presidents of war-torn countries, or whales swimming around acidifying seas. And then we will rot and decay again. And so it goes.”

“Speaking of the different types of compassion, he said, 'We can help others like the right hand helps the left hand.' He chucked at his little metaphor. 'The right hand does not think, 'I should help the left hand, this is the right thing to do.' It simply acts. Because it knows the two hands depend on each other.”