“Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.”
Quote by Ulysses S. Grant
“When you are just you, without thinking or trying to say something special, just saying what is on your mind and how you feel, then there is naturally self-respect.”
Source: Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
“Let your ears hear without trying to hear. Let the mind think without trying to think and without trying to stop it. That is practice.”
Source: Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
“The more you practice zazen, the more you will be able to accept something as your own, whatever it is.”
Source: Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
“To be different is to have value. In this sense all things have equal, absolute value. Each thing has absolute value and thus is equal to everything else.”
Source: Branching Streams Flow in the Darkness: Zen Talks on the Sandokai
“letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.”
Source: Sharing the world
“Traditional morality ... does not teach us how to let the other follow his or her own path, meet with whomever he or she desires, go where he or she wants.”
Source: Sharing the world
“Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not apply for already constructed worlds and cultures. They are neither universal nor easily shareable.”
Source: Sharing the world
“Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as different.”
Source: Building a New World
“As the years pass, and we look back on something which, at the time, seemed unbelievably discouraging and unfair, we come to realize that, after all, God was at all times on our side. The eventual outcome was, we discover, by far the best solution for us, and what we thought should have been to our best advantage, would in reality have been quite detrimental.”
“Demons may be either good or bad, like any other class of beings.”
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