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D.T. Suzuki

" Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering. "

Suffering , Agree

related quotes

" Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering. "

Suffering , Agree

" When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?" The question becomes, "What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?" "

Peace , needs , Asking , Inner

" Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage. "

Grows

" Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points. "

Doe , Wake

" The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts "

Heart , Struggle , Religious

" Thought creates things by slicing up reality into small bits that it can easily grasp. Thus when you are think-ing you are thing-ing. Thought does not report things, it distorts reality to create things, and as Bergson noted, "In so doing it allows what is the very essence of the real to escape." Thus to the extent we actually imagine a world of discrete and separate things, conceptions have become perceptions, and we have in this manner populated our universe with nothing but ghosts. "

Thinking , Real , Essence

" Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities. "

Infinite , Emptiness , Facts

" The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity. "

Heart , Moving , Inspiring

" I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life. "

Life , Inspirational

" When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown. "

Spiritual , Life

" You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves. "

People , Life , Lesson

" We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen. "

Eye , Two , Sides

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