Zen Saying Quotes
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Better to see the face than to hear the name.
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Zen says: be empty. Look without any idea. Look into the nature of things but with no idea, with no prejudice, with no presupposition.
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Education is the process by which the individual relates himself to the universe, give himself citizenship in the changing world, share's the race's mind and enfranchises his own soul.
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If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
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Not to be bound by rules, but to be creating one's own rules--this is the kind of life which Zen is trying to have us live.
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Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.
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Zen ... does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
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Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind
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Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
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Zen says everything is divine so how can anything be special? All is special. Nothing is non-special so nothing can be special.
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By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice. This is the only education which deserves the name.
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Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.
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If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of the television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.
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Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
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The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
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Zen is non-serious. Zen has a tremendous sense of humor. No other religion has evolved so much that it can have that sense of humor.
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually, one discovers that it is not boring, but very interesting.
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I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
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But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime
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Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens.
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In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.
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Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves.
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Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State.
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With all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow citizens -- a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities
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Zen is a double-edged sword, killing words and thoughts, yet at the same time, giving them life. Although beyond human intellect and philosophy, Zen is their root and source.
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Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible
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We Americans have so much potential. We just need to cultivate an environment that allows us to let go of our Cro-Magnon nationalism and start living like citizens of earth.
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Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself. ... [I] hope we have once again reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts
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It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error
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Subsidies entail politicians’ taking the citizen’s paycheck and then using it to buy his submission.
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Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling
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The function of a citizen and a soldier are inseparable.
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Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion in private self defense.
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Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.
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In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance
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In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
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Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom
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Citizenship is a tough occupation which obliges the citizen to make his own informed opinion and stand by it.
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This is the Zen approach: nothing is there to be done. There is nothing to do. One has just to be. Have a rest and be ordinary and be natural.
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One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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For Zen, man is the goal; man is the end unto himself. God is not something above humanity, God is something hidden within humanity. Man is carrying God in himself as a potentiality.
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No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over ... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.
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As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.
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Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings its own song.
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With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
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Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.
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The Supreme Court has not closed the doors of justice to the detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. This is a major victory for the rule of law and affirms the right of every person, citizen or non-citizen, detained by the United States to test the legality of his or her detention in a U.S. Court.
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Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people in order to betray them.
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Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens
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Architecture is frozen music.
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The voice of protest, of warning, of appeal is never more needed than when the clamor of fife and drum, echoed by the press and too often by the pulpit, is bidding all men fall in step and obey in silence the tyrannous word of command. Then, more than ever, it is the duty of the good citizen not to be silent.
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Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.
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The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues – self-restraint.
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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
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I used to visit and revisit it a dozen times a day, and stand in deep contemplation over my vegetable progeny with a love that nobody could share or conceive of who had never taken part in the process of creation. It was one of the most bewitching sights in the world to observe a hill of beans thrusting aside the soil, or a rose of early peas just peeping forth sufficiently to trace a line of delicate green.
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Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference
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There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.
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The driver knows how much the ox can carry, and keeps the ox from being overloaded. You know your way and your state of mind. Do not carry too much.
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Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality.
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Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter
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Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near.
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Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God.
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When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and the most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter the swamp as a sacred place--a sanctum sanctorum; there is the strength, the marrow of Nature.
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Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is.
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Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. -Zen saying.
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The citizen can bring our political and governmental institutions back to life, make them responsive and accountable, and keep them honest. No one else can
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I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.
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Serenity of manners is the zenith of beauty.
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I am a citizen, not of Athens or Greece, but of the world
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The inifinite is in the finite of every instant.
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And so, my fellow Americans: Ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man
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Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.
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The most important political office is that of the private citizen
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If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.
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Citizenship consists in the service of the country
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I think it is a great error to consider a heavy tax on wines as a tax on luxury. On the contrary, it is a tax on the health of our citizens.
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An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens . . . There has never been a moment of my life in which I should have relinquished for it the enjoyments of my family, my farm, my friends and books.
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Feminism was recognized by the average man as a conflict in which it was impossible for a man, as a chivalrous gentleman ... as a highly evolved citizen of a highly civilized community, to refuse the claim of this better half to self-determination.
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The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.
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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
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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.
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Americans have the right and advantage of being armed - unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms
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Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
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