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“Zeena's first published sermon at 7 years old. From “The Cloven Hoof” periodical, 1970, San Francisco, CA, USA.:
“The question, 'What is the difference between God and Satan?,' was put to Zeena LaVey, seven-year-old daughter of the High Priest. Her answer was...
'SATAN MADE THE ROSE AND GOD MADE THE THORNS.”
Source: Demons of the Flesh: The Complete Guide to Left Hand Path Sex Magic
“Zeena Schreck is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, author, musician/composer, tantric teacher, mystic, animal rights activist, and counter-culture icon known by her mononymous artist name, ZEENA. Her work stems from her experience within the esoteric, shamanistic and magical traditions of which she's practiced, taught and been initiated. She is a practicing Tibetan Buddhist yogini, teaches at the Buddhistische Gesellschaft Berlin and is the spiritual leader of the Sethian Liberation Movement (SLM).”
“Zeep in je vagina is even absurd als zeep in je oogbal smeren. Doe het niet. Nooit.”
Source: Kut genoeg om een boek over te schrijven
“Zeer, zeer slim voorwaar, die aandacht voor de taal. Want niks zal hebben bestaan, niks zal zijn gebeurd, dat niet ooit kan worden naverteld.”
Source: Bloedboek
“Zeg nooit: ik heb gisteren een goed toneelstuk gezien. Zeg: ik was gisteren getuige van een relevante toneelervaring.”
“Zeg wijveke, waar moet ik zijn om Vlaanderen nog wat meer af te stompen?”
Source: De Poenpakker
“Zehn mein jab bhi diwali ka khayaal aaya hai
Lams us shokh ke jal utthe chiragon ki tarah”
“Zehrunisa didn’t know Abdul’s age herself. Seventeen was what she’d said before the burning, when people asked her, but he could have been twenty-seven, for all she knew. You didn’t keep track of a child’s years when you were fighting daily to keep him from starving, as she and many other Annawadi mothers had been doing when their teenagers were young.”
Source: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
“Zeigen Sie mir einen einzelnen Mann oder eine Frau, und Sie werden einen Heiligen oder eine Heilige sehen. Zeigen Sie mir zwei Menschen, und sie werden sich ineinander verlieben. Geben Sie mir drei, und sie werden das bezaubernde Ding erfinden, das wir » Gesellschaft« nennen. Geben Sie mir vier, und sie werden eine Pyramide bauen. Geben Sie mir fünf, und sie werden einen zum Paria stempeln. Geben Sie mir sechs, und sie werden das Vorurteil neu erfinden. Geben Sie mir sieben, und in sieben Jahren erfinden sie den Krieg neu. Der Mensch mag nach Gottes Ebenbild erschaffen worden sein, die menschliche Gesellschaft aber ganz sicherlich nach dem Ebenbild seines Gegenspielers, und sie will immer wieder nach Hause.”
Source: The Stand
“Zeit gibt uns mehr Minuten um zu verdrängen als Sekunden um zu verstehen.”
“Zeit habe ich mehr als genug. Was würde ich gewinnen, wenn ich aufhören würde, welche zu verlieren?”
“Zeit in Bursa
In Bursa: ein Moscheehof, klein, uralt,
Drin Wasser plätschernd in dem Springbrunn wallt,
Und eine Mauer noch aus Orhans Zeiten,
Gleichaltrig die Platane ihr zu Seiten,
Die allseits heitren Tag durchscheinen läßt -
Die Trauer, die noch eines Traumes Rest;
Darinnen lächelt mir tief aus dem Innern,
Gleichsam aus einem kühlenden Erinnern
Des Himmels Blau, as Grün der eb'nen Flur
Und jene göttlichste Architektur.
Hier ist ein jeder Name Siegeskunde;
In eins verflossen, leben Zeit, Tag, Stunde
Den Zauber einer längst vergangnen Pracht
Des Traums, der noch in diesen Steinen lacht.
Das taubenäugige, das Schweigen auch
Tönt noch mit jener Zeiten fernem Hauch -
Gümüslü: Spiegel frühster Siegeshuld;
Muradiye: Bittre Frucht nur der Geduld;
Symbol des Lebens: weiße Nilüfer;
Moscheen, Türben, Gärten altersschwer,
Zahlloser Helden ruhmreiche Legenden,
Kriegsschreie auch, die sich zum Himmel wenden,
Trägt jeden zur Vergangenheit mit Macht.
In diesem Traum schläft Bursa jede Nacht,
Mit ihm erwacht es, wenn der Tag anbricht,
Zypresse, Rose lacht im Silberlicht -
Und der verhalt'nen Brunnen frischer Ton ...
Inmitten eines Wunders leb ich schon
Von Flügelschlagen und der Wasser Hall -
Die Zeit hier: eine Ampel von Kristall ...”
“Zeit ist das Kostbarste, das ich dir schenken kann.
Denn Du und Ich, wir sind geprägt von unserer Endlichkeit.
Doch auch jede Endlichkeit kann ins Unendliche wachsen.”
Source: Im Ereignishorizont: Gedichte
“Zeke and I struggled to get to the dressing room so we could get changed. But we were mobbed by people who wanted to congratulate us and tell us how talented and terrific we were.”
Source: Phantom of the Auditorium
“Zeke, having plenty of wisdom and seeing just about everything through the years, was pretty crusty among the junior pilots. His legendary tough attitude in the face of rules made the young guys laugh. Hard. Often seen in the hangar on the catwalk checking out the mechanics turning wrenches, he’d have a cigarette in his mouth in an area full of fuel. Zeke knew the flashpoint was so high that he’d never start a fire, so he routinely ignored the “No Smoking” signs.”
Source: The Black Scorpion Pilot
“Zekice bir kitap yazmışsın, Bon-Bon,” diye devam etti Majesteleri, dostumuzun omzuna, o verilen emri tam anlamıyla yerine getirdikten sonra bardağını bırakırken hafifçe, bilgiç bir tavırla vurarak. “Kesinlikle zekice bir kitap. Tam benim sevdiğim türden bir eser. Ancak özdeğe ilişkin tasarımın geliştirilebilir ve fikirlerinin pek çoğu bana Aristoteles’i anımsatıyor. O filozof en yakın tanıdıklarımdan biriydi. Onu hem korkunç huysuzluğundan, hem de pot kırmak gibi eğlenceli bir yönünden dolayı severdim. Bütün o yazdıkları arasında tek bir somut gerçek var ki, onun ipucunu da kendisinin absürdlüğünü sevdiğim için ben verdim. Pierre Bon-Bon, hangi yüce ahlâki gerçekten bahsettiğimi biliyorsun sanırım, değil mi?”
“Bildiğimi söyleyemem –”
“Evet! – Aristoteles’e insanların hapşırırken gereksiz fikirleri burunlarından dışarı attığını söyleyen bendim.”
“Bu –hık!– gerçekten de doğru,” dedi metafizikçi, kendisine bir bardak daha Mousseux koyarken ve ziyaretçisinin parmaklarına enfiye kutusunu sunarken.
“Platon’a da,” diye devam etti Majesteleri, enfiye kutusunu ve içerdiği iltifatı alçakgönüllülükle geri çevirerek, “Platon’a da bir zamanlar arkadaşça hisler beslemiştim. Platon’la tanıştın mı Bon-Bon? – Ah! Hayır, binlerce kez özür dilerim. Benimle bir gün Atina’da, Parthenon’da karşılaştı ve bana bir fikirden bunaldığını söyledi. Ona ο νους εδτιv αυλος‘yu* yazmasını önerdim. Bunu yapacağını söyleyip eve gitti, ben de piramitlere çıktım. Ama vicdanım beni bir arkadaşa bile olsa birine gerçeği söylediğim için kınadı ve apar topar Atina’ya geri dönüp ‘αυλος’yu yazarken filozofun sandalyesinin arkasında durdum. Kağıda parmağımla dokunarak ters çevirdim. Böylece cümle şimdi ‘ο νους εδτιv αυγος’** olarak okunuyor ve gördüğün gibi, metafiziğinin temel doktrini.”
“Hiç Roma’da bulundunuz mu?” diye sordu restaurateur, ikinci Mousseux şişesini bitirdikten sonra dolaptan büyük bir şişe Chambertin alırken.
“Sadece bir kez, sevgili Bon-Bon, sadece bir kez. Bir ara” –dedi Şeytan, sanki bir kitaptan okurcasına– “bir ara beş yıllık bir anarşi dönemi olmuştu ve o sırada bütün memurlarından yoksun kalan cumhuriyetin halkın seçtiklerinden başka yargıcı yoktu. Bunlar da yasal idari yetkiye sahip değildi – o zaman, Mösyö Bon-Bon – yalnızca o zaman Roma’daydım ve bu yüzden onun felsefesine ilişkin dünyevi bir tanıdığım yok.”
“Epicurus hakkında ne –hık!– ne düşünüyorsunuz?”
“Kimin hakkında?” dedi şeytan şaşkınlıkla, “Epicurus’ta kusur bulmak istiyor olamazsın! Epicurus hakkında ne düşünüyormuşum! Beni mi kastediyorsunuz bayım? – Epicurus benim. Diogenes Laertes tarafından adı anılan üç yüz bilimsel incelemenin herbirini yazan filozof benim.”
* Ruh bir flüttür.
** Ruh parlak bir ışıktır.”
Source: Bon-Bon
“Zekâ ve mizaç maraton yarışı değildir: Başarı için sabit kriterler yoktur. Başlangıç ve bitiş çizgileri yoktur. Bazen yana veya geriye koşmak da zafer kazandırabilir.”
Source: The Gene: An Intimate History
“Zelda’s eyes were so wide and so trusting. No trace of doubt that Sarah would fix this, because Sarah was her friend, and friends were omnipotent. Sarah would make everything okay.”
Source: Last Exit
“Zelda was created by Shigeru Miyamoto, a total genius of a game designer. I have found very few other action/rpg’s really match up to the immersive experience that the Zelda games offer.”
“Zele rose because it has watered its plantation with its sweats”
“Zelf heb ik Frisch één keer ontmoet, in Edinburgh. Wat weet ik daar nog van? Niet veel.
Met Mulisch en Reve was ik de Nederlandse delegatie bij een groot schrijverscongres.
1962. Vier jaar voor hij aan dat dagboek zou beginnen. Hij was niet groot, en had een bril met een zwaar montuur en zoiets als dubbele glazen, waardoor het leek of de ogen vergroot werden. Ik was negenentwintig, en het enige dat er van mij vertaald was kon hij niet gelezen hebben. Maar je bent aanwezig, dus misschien ben je wel wat. Van Harry was toen ook nog niet veel vertaald, maar hij had zijn allure mee, en straalde een onmetelijke zekerheid uit. We stonden met Frisch aan de bar, wat we besproken hebben is vervlogen. Frisch had een behoorlijke slok op, amuseerde zich, en liet ons praten. Harry sneed door een menigte met die neus als een schegbeeld, misschien heeft Frisch dat wel opgeschreven. Ontmoetingen met schrijvers die je niet kunt lezen hebben altijd iets spannends, omdat er niets te bewijzen valt. Henry Miller liep er rond, Angus Wilson, Stephen Spender, Normal Mailer, beroemde Schotten waar wij nog nooit van gehoord hadden, je hoort erbij maar je bent niemand en god weet wat je geschreven hebt in die rare taal van je, en iedereen is vriendelijk. Ik voelde me zoals een van de onnozele kinderen in het voorgeborchte, nog niet gezondigd, wachtend op de hemel die misschien wel een hel is. Eén beeld is me altijd bijgebleven. In een zaal waar al die beroemdheden rondliepen zat een adellijke Schotse familie in kilts met de kleuren en ruiten van hun clan. Ze hadden schoenen met zilveren gespen, en een dolk met een zilveren gevest in een wollen kniekous gestoken. Smokingjasjes op die rokken, een zwartglanzende vlinderdas, ridderordes.
Geen ogenblik keken ze op naar de eventuele beroemdheden, al ze die al kenden. Ze zaten daar als atavistische beelden in een feodale oase, werden van achteren bediend door mensen die ze niet aankeken, en waren zichzelf volstrekt genoeg. Het is een halve eeuw geleden en ik weet het nog.”
Source: 533. Een dagenboek
“Zelfkennis en zelfzorg. Knellende schoenen geven blaren, wandelen wordt hinken, hinken wordt strompelen. Wil ik opnieuw stevig in mijn schoenen staan, dan moet ik mijn voeten serieus nemen. Waarom heb ik blaren, hoe krijg ik die weg? Welk schoeisel past er bij mijn voeten? Welke schoenen wil ik voor welke gelegenheid? Koop ik schoenen voor mijn voeten of voor de ogen van de buitenwereld? Of voor de ogen van één iemand in de buitenwereld?”
Source: Intimiteit
“Zelfs de kleinste wezens beschikken over een zenuwstelsel dat dopamine of aanverwante moleculen nodig heeft om tot zoek- en verzamelgedrag aan te zetten. De menselijke zenuwbanen zijn wellicht een complexere versie van de zenuwbanen die we aantreffen in bijen, maar ook hier zou de belofte wel eens meer gewicht in de schaal kunnen leggen dan het resultaat. De beloningen die door bloemen in het vooruitzicht worden gesteld voorzien de voedselzoekende door middel van dopamine van nieuwe energie, en experimenten met hommels hebben uitgewezen dat ze stoppen met nectar zoeken als deze neurotransmitter wordt geblokkeerd.
Dit vormt mede een verklaring voor het feit dat insecten soms trouw blijven aan bloemen die ze geen nectar opleveren. Zo zijn er bloemen die mannelijke vliegen aantrekken met feromonen in hun geur en tekeningen op hun blaadjes die op een vrouwelijke vlieg lijken. De paarinstincten van de vlieg worden door deze seksuele mimicry zo effectief gekaapt, dat hij ejaculeert op de bloem, terwijl hij zichzelf intussen vollaadt met stuifmeel. Dit is een vorm van 'insectenporno' in actie. Biologen noemen zo'n verschijnsel een 'supernormale prikkel'; die prikkel is supernormaal omdat het dier waarop de prikkel gericht is, deze aantrekkelijker vindt dan het origineel. Zulke prikkels bieden een overdreven versie van belangrijke signalen uit de omgeving zoals patronen en tekeningen, en weten zo een instinct een ander functie te geven dan waarvoor het was bedoeld. Maar net als mensen zijn niet alle insecten even vatbaar voor bepaalde prikkels, en sommige soorten bijen spelen op veilig, en keren alleen terug naar bloemen die kleine hoeveelheden nectar bieden, waar je echter wel op kunt rekenen.”
Source: The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
“Zelfs de onsterfelijke goden waren niet bij machte zich te verhouden tot, mee te leven met, nakomelingen te verwekken bij en het lot te bepalen van zo'n aanzwellende schare eerzuchtige, vernuftige en egocentrische wezens.”
Source: Troy
“Zelfs de sterken, wijzen en ouden wankelen echter bij gebrek aan medeleven en gezelschap, en terwijl baba zijn gekte had en maman haar onzin, had Laylee in hun afwezigheid de eenzaamheid de hand geschud. Duisternis had duisternis gevoed totdat al het licht verdwenen was. Ze kon zich niet langer herinneren hoe het was om zonder gebroken hart te leven.”
Source: Whichwood
“Zelfs in de beklaagdenbank is het altijd interessant om over jezelf te horen praten.”
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“Zemii sunt animale sociabile şi inteligente, mai mult sau mai puţin. Viaţa lor de zi cu zi cuprinde numeroase reguli de comportamentare, ritualuri şi ceremonii, încălcate însă atât de des încît e greu de distins între regulă şi excepţii.”
Source: Enciclopedia zmeilor
“Zemlja je drevna i ogromna, i ima mnogo toga što još uvek ne shvatamo. Odbijam da prihvatim da su nauka i magija suprotstavljene; obe su validni pokušaji da se dokuči kako funkcioniše naš svet. Lusi Redklif”
Source: The Clockmaker's Daughter
“Zen abhors repetition or imitation of any kind, for it kills. For the same reason Zen never explains, but only affirms. Life is fact and no explanation is necessary or pertinent. To explain is to apologize, and why should we apologize for living? To live—is that not enough? Let us then live, let us affirm! Herein lies Zen in all its purity and in all its nudity as well.”
“Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.”
Source: Earth House Hold
“Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons.”
“Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself.”
Source: Essays in Zen Buddhism
“Zen brings creativity. And remember, if you want to be one with the creator, you will have to learn some ways of creativity. The only way to be one with the creator is to be in some moment of creativity, when you are lost. The potter is lost in making his pottery; the potter is lost while working on the wheel. The painter is lost while painting. The dancer is lost; there is no dancer, only the dance remains. Those are the peak moments, where you touch God, where God touches you.”
“Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.”
“Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.”
“Zen calls our attention to the wonders of the ordinary. There is a hidden dimension of beauty, richness, and harmony in the common world surrounding us, but we seldom take notice. Zen tries to stimulate our sensitivity to these natural wonders and hence to recover the joy in our daily lives.”
Source: The Zen Teachings of Jesus
“Zen certainly derives from Buddhism, but a form of Buddhism that belongs to a geographical zone influenced by the Chinese culture. The Chinese Zen tree, transplanted in Japan, in Vietnam, and in Korea, has grown well and greatly. Zen Buddhism, in each of these countries, differs with certain nuances from that practiced in China. One can, however, easily recognize its identity.”
Source: Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice
“Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.”
“Zen cuts straight through the Quidditch match in progress and almost gets taken down by a Beater hurling a Nerf quaffle right at his machopartes.”
“Zen discourse ranges from rejection to veneration with exorcistic trends never disappearing, and the haughty disdain for supernaturalism in some records coexists with full-scale syncretism that includes purification rites. This range in the levels of discourse of Japanese amalgamations offers many striking contrasts with the nonassimilative, intolerant interactions between Christianity and medieval European paganism.”
Source: White Collar Zen: Using Zen Principles to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Your Career Goals
“Zen . . . does not belong to monks only. Everyone can study and practice it. Many laymen have been recognized as illustrious Zen Masters, and have aroused the respect of the monks themselves.
The laity are related to the monasteries by the material support they provide to them, as it sometimes happens that the labor of the monks may not be sufficient to ensure the upkeep of the monastery. The laity are also related to the monasteries by their participation in the construction of temples and sanctuaries and by their cultural activities; for example, the printing and publishing of sutras and scriptural works by monks. A good number of monasteries each month organize bat quan trai gioi for laymen who wish to live for twenty-four or forty-eight hours in a monastery exactly like monks. Places are reserved for them for these periods of bat quan trai gioi, during which they practice Zen under the direction of monks.”
Source: Zen Keys: A Guide to Zen Practice
“Zen doesn't believe in the reconciliation of opposites because from the point of view of Zen, there is no point of view.”
“Zen enriches no one. There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while in the place where it is thought to be. But they soon go elsewhere. When they are gone, the "nothing," the "no-body" that was there, suddenly appears. That is Zen. It was there all the time but the scavengers missed it, because it was not their kind of prey.”
“Zen funeral rites typify both the promise of universal salvation characteristic of Japanese Buddhism and the dominance of funeral services in the activities of Japanese Buddhist temples. In fact, Japanese Buddhist funerals—the single most important Buddhist ritual still observed by the vast majority of Japanese—largely derives from rites that were introduced and popularized first by Zen monks.”
Source: Sōtō Zen in Medieval Japan
“Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate.”
Source: Zen: The Path of Paradox
“Zen goes directly to your own experience of the oneness of the universe, of your interconnectedness with all things. You learn to distrust whatever you clung to in your old sense of separation, and that realization can be the most liberating thing in your life, a freedom beyond anything you could have imagined.”
Source: The Beginner's Guide to Zen Buddhism
“Zen has a pronounced iconoclastic tendency, and regards the study of texts, doctrines, and dogmas as a potential hindrance to spiritual awakening, relying instead on humour, spontaneity, unconventionality, poetry, and other forms of artistic expression to communicate the idea of enlightenment”
Source: Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction