David Chadwick > Quotes

“[Zuzuki-roshi] I don’t know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.”
― David Chadwick, Crooked Cucumber: The Life and Zen Teaching of Shunryu Suzuki

“It seems to me that all our endless failures are adding up to a magnificent success. It’s just not what we had in mind. It’s real.”
― David Chadwick

“So did Katagiri fail, and am I a failure because I can’t remember what Buddhism is—and are all the rest of us failures, as it seems, when contrasted against our early pure and simple expectations and the clear-cut enlightenment of the story books?”
― David Chadwick

“If you truly believed that Jesus was praying fervently for you right now, how much of your anxiety would flee? Would it melt before the passionate pleas you make to your Lord?”
― David Chadwick, Moving Beyond Anxiety: 12 Practical Strategies to Renew Your Mind

“Victory over anxiety begins with faith. What you believe influences how you feel.”
― David Chadwick, Moving Beyond Anxiety: 12 Practical Strategies to Renew Your Mind