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“But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.”

Mind Doe Body Moving Four Awareness Materials Elements Stones Plant Four Elements

Book:The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma

“When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the seven treasures are used. Rice-cakes are painted in the same manner. When a person is painted, the four great elements and five skandhas are used.”

Persons Used Water Five Four Rocks Strange Materials Mountain Elements Red Stones Blue Green Paint Seven Treasure Cake Jewels Rice Wondrous Rice Cakes

Author:Dogen

“Three or four stones in one firing will all react differently. I try to achieve a balance between those that haven't progressed enough and those about to go too far.”

Trying Enough Three Four Achieve Havens Balance Stones Firing

Author:Andy Goldsworthy

“What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me.”

Whole Use Moving Four Happened Hundred Stones Paid Twenties Originals Dollars Drawing Treasure Agents Damn Convince Sixty Fifteen Rolling Rolling Stones Rue

Author:Ralph Steadman

“China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelts proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.”

Fighting Nations President Four Stones Independence Corners China Liberation Oppressed Charter Proclamation President Roosevelt

Author:Chiang Kai-shek

“In an interview with Rolling Stone, Senator John Kerry, who is running for president, said that when he voted for the war in Iraq, he didn't expect President Bush to 'f--- it up as badly as he did.' Here's some breaking news, tomorrow former Vice President Al Gore expected to endorse Howard Dean as the Democratic nominee for president of the United States - and you thought John Kerry was using four letter words before! Actually, to John Kerry, Dean is a four letter word.”

“More than four billion people live within a stone's throw of the ocean, so what happens to it affects them immediately, daily, whether pollution, more frequent storms, or rising sea levels.”

People Happens Levels Four Sea Ocean Stones Storm Billions Rising Pollution

Author:Jon Bowermaster

“Bob Dylan did the first really long record - Like A Rolling Stone - I think it was four minutes.”

Thinking Firsts Long Records Four Minutes Stones Bob Rolling Dylan Rolling Stones Really Long

Author:Pete Townshend

“I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.”

Four Stones Pills Contraceptives

Author:Jo Brand

“Lay down these words Before your mind like rocks. placed solid, by hands In choice of place, set Before the body of the mind in space and time: Solidity of bark, leaf, or wall riprap of things: Cobble of milky way. straying planets, These poems, people, lost ponies with Dragging saddles -- and rocky sure-foot trails. The worlds like an endless four-dimensional Game of Go. ants and pebbles In the thin loam, each rock a word a creek-washed stone Granite: ingrained with torment of fire and weight Crystal and sediment linked hot all change, in thoughts, As well as things.”

Source: No nature: new and selected poems

“Five Great Charters knit the land Together linked, hand in hand One in the people who wear the crown Two in the folk who keep the Dead down Three and Five became stone and mortar Four sees all in frozen water.”

People Two Hands Together Three Water Five Four Land Stones Folks Crowns Linked Frozen Hand In Hand Charter Mortar

Book:Sabriel

Source: Sabriel

“Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the problem: this strange belief that a tree has nothing to say until it is murdered, its flesh pulped, and then (human) people stain this flesh with words. I would take children outside and put them face to face with chipmunks, dragonflies, tadpoles, hummingbirds, stones, rivers, trees, crawdads. That said, if you're going to force me to give them a book, it would be The Wind In The Willows, which I hope would remind them to go outside.”

“On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the world, And how many formations might they make And who am I ever To imagine I could know Such a marvelous business? When the sun broke It poured willingly its light Over the stones That did not move, not at all, Just as, to its always generous term, It shed its light on me, My own body that loves, Equally, to hug another body.”

Knows World Kind Body Light Might Moving Term My Own Sun Four Imagine Stones Broke Beach Dawn Generous Hug Shed Marvelous Formation Kinds Of Love

Book:Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

Source: Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

“A—ris—ta?” Degan asked, sounding horse. “What is it?” “A rat bit me,” she said, once again shocked by her own rasping voice. “Jasper does that if—” Gaunt coughed and hacked. After a moment, he spoke again. “If he thinks you’re dead or too weak to fight.” “Jasper?” “I call him that, but I’ve also named the stones in my cell.” “I only counted mine,” Arista said. “Two hundred and thirty-four,” Degan replied instantly. “I have two hundred and twenty-eight.” “Did you count the cracked ones as two?” “No.”

Ifs Thinking Doe Said Two Moments Fighting Bits Voice Four Mines Hundred Stones Weak Horse Twenties Eight Cells Thirty Spokes Rats Shocked Cracked Hacked

Author:Michael J. Sullivan

“When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become as it were like unto rolling logs or stones. For it is the nature of a log or stone to remain motionless on level ground, and to move when on a slope; if four-cornered, to come to a standstill, but if round-shaped to go rolling down.”

Ifs Men Art War Moving Fighting Energy Levels Four Stones Rounds Rolling Art Of War Slopes Standstill Cornered

Book:Strategy Six Pack

Source: Strategy Six Pack