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Ruth Ozeki (born March 12, 1956) is an American novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest. Known for works including My Year of Meats (1998), A Tale for the Time Being (2013), and The Book of Form and Emptiness (2021), her novels blend Japanese cultural elements with contemporary American themes. A Tale for the Time Being was nominated for the Man Booker Prize. She combines her practice of Zen Buddhism with her literary and film work.

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“Live. For Now. For the time being.”

Life Wisdom Time Live

Book:A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

“I was thinking about what she aid about waves, and it made me sad because I knew that her little wave was not going to last and soon she would join the sea again, and even though I know you can’t hold on to water, I still gripped her fingers a little more tightly to keep her from leaking away,”

Life Death Water Nature Sea Metaphor Cycle

Book:A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

“(...) 6,400,099,980 moments that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.”

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Book:A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

“The way you write ronin is 浪人 with the character for wave and the character for person, which is pretty much how I feel, like a little wave person, floating around on the stormy sea of life.”

Life Floating Stormy

Book:A Tale for the Time Being

Source: A Tale for the Time Being

“There are many answers, none of them right, but some of them most definitely wrong.”

Book:My Year of Meats

Source: My Year of Meats

“Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!”

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Author:Ruth Ozeki

“...I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.”

Ifs Knows Life Giving Wells Mean Moments Give Me Do You Know

Author:Ruth Ozeki

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Born: March 12, 1956
Known for: Novelist
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