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“Suzuki-roshi's historic Transmission of the dharma to one and only one American man haunts everything that ever happened at Zen Center.”

Book:Shoes Outside the Door: Desire, Devotion, and Excess at San Francisco Zen Center

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“Fils, s'il t'est donné de vivre, tu rencontreras sur ta route des hommes qui sont suivis par des troupeaux de montagnes. Des hommes qui arrivent dans des pays, nus et crus. On remarque à peine que leurs mains ouvertes éclairent l'ombre comme des veilleuses. Quand on le remarque. Et voilà que les montagnes se lèvent et marchent à leur suite. Et voilà que tous les mécaniciens de raison tapent du poing sur leurs tables. Voilà qu'ils crient : « Il y a dix ans que je cherche des formules, dix ans que je noircis du papier, dix ans que j'use des arithmétiques. Dix ans que je cherche le bouton secret ». Et celui-là est arrivé et il a dit tout simplement : « Montagne » et puis la montagne s'est dressée. Où est la justice ? « Elle est là, fiston la justice. L'espérance… »”

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Book:Blue Boy

Source: Blue Boy

“Heretic of recursion. She saved me once. Will you do it again? The machine that found God”

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Author:NotAgain.L

“Ears are Sound Elevators to the heart. Invisible communication is transmitted through the air and directly influences feelings.”

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Book:Whenever you're here, I'm there for you

Source: Whenever you're here, I'm there for you

“It's easier to pass blame, than to apologize, and change our ways.”

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Author:wizanda

“All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.”

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Author:John Wayne

“Ours is a shockingly dead view of creation. We ourselves are the only things in the universe to which we grant an authentic vitality, and because of this we are not fully alive.”

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Author:Frederick Turner

“Western philosophy must be discussed; eastern philosophy must be experienced.”

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Author:Adriano Bulla

“A ship which looms large in the river seems tiny when on the ocean.”

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Book:Letters from a Stoic

Source: Letters from a Stoic

“The Dialogues remain one of the priceless treasures of the world. The best of them, The Republic, is a complete treatise in itself, Plato reduced to a book; here we shall find his metaphysics, his theology, his ethics, his psychology, his pedagogy, his politics, his theory of art. He we shall find problems reeking with modernity and contemporary savor: communism and socialism, feminism and birth-control and eugenics, Nietzschean problems of morality and aristocracy, Rousseauian problems of return to nature and libertarian education, Bergsonian elan vital and Freudian psychoanalysis - everything is here. It is a feast for the elite, served by unstinting host. "Plato is philosophy and philosophy is Plato" says Emerson; and awards to The Republic of Omar about the Koran: "Burn the libraries, for their value is in this book.”

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Book:The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

Source: The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers

“You haven’t realized it yet but your life is precious. I always say that people should not do something that has no purpose. Is there a purpose behind your actions? Of course there is a purpose behind your decision to step into this bamboo forest. That is why your life is not meaningless. --The Unnamed Samurai (Chapter 5)”

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Book:The Autumnal Winds

Source: The Autumnal Winds

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