Zen Like Quotes

• The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Encouraging, Wisdom, Hiking

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• To set up what you like against what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind.

  Sengcan

  Wisdom, Mind, Disease

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• To accept some idea of truth without experiencing it is like a painting of a cake on paper which you cannot eat.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Cake, Ideas, Paper

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• The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The purpose of the word is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.

  Zhuangzi

  Men, Ideas, Rabbits

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• Life should be touched, not strangled.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Letting Go, Should

  "Farewell Summer". Book by Ray Bradbury, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2006.

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• When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Effort, Leaving, Should

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.47, Shambhala Publications

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• Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss?

  Susan Lydon

  Letting Go, Loss, Positivity

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• Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled.

  Ray Bradbury

  Letting Go, Should, Learn To Let Go

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• Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

  Amy Alcott

  Spiritual, Golf, Games

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• Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You've got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Letting Go, Moving

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• But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That's when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow.

  George Carlin

  Positivity, Ideas, Laughing

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• One view of photography is that it is a zen-like act which captures reality with its pants down - so that the vital click shows the anatomy bare. In this, the photographer is invisible but essential. A computer releasing the shutter would always miss the special moment that the human sensibility can register. For this work, the photographer's instinct is his aid, his personality a hindrance.

  Peter Brook

  Photography, Reality, Views

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• Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Beautiful, Baseball, Games

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• Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural, spontaneous encounter, unclouded by the suppositions and expectations that come between us and reality. It is, if you like, a paring down of life until we see it as it really is, free from our illusions; it is merely a divestment of ourselves until we recognize our own true nature.

  David Fontana

  Reality, Essence, Expectations

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• No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open.

  George Carlin

  Laughing, Defense, Moments

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• I have developed a Zen-like approach to the operating systems that people use: 'When you're ready, the right operating system will appear in your life.

  Guy Kawasaki

  People, Use, Operating Systems

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• There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Buddhist, Garden

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• Crowdsourcing is the ultimate disruptor of distribution because in a most Zen-like fashion, the content is controlled by everyone and no one at the same time.

  Jay Samit

  Fashion, Crowdsourcing, Distribution

  Jay Samit (2015). “Disrupt You!: Master Personal Transformation, Seize Opportunity, and Thrive in the Era of Endless Innovation”, p.205, Macmillan

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• I didn't mean for you to take that the wrong way," He said abruptly. Mae stared at him in amazement. So, for that matter, did Jamie. "What?" "Demons don't touch anyone without a reason," Nick went on, his eyes shut again. "You can imagine what kind of reasons we usually have. I don't like--not anyone--I didn't mean anything by it." "Oh," said Jamie. "Oh, that's okay! That's fine. I understand. I am filled to the brim with understanding and, and acceptance! I'm very Zen like that.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Mean, Eye, Acceptance

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2010). “The Demon's Covenant”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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