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Craig is Currently Reading

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Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk

by Shozan Jack Haubner

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Critical Sermons of the Zen Tradition: Hisamatsu's Talks on Linji

by Hōsekī Schīnīchī Hisamatsu

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"I've set this aside while I read Genjokoan. Great teishos in the Rinzai tradition. Great teachings, but one Zen book at a time is plenty." — May 13, 2013 12:32AM

Jun 20, 2014 12:01PM

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Ecology of the Planted Aquarium

by Diana Walstad

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Craig’s Quotes

“I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.”
― Jack London, The Turtles of Tasman

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“He is cured by faith who is sick of fate.”
― James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

tags: faith, fate, religion-and-philoshophy

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“For those who understand, no explanation is needed. For those who do not understand, no explanation is possible.”
― Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics

tags: explanation, understand

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“Putting it into words will destroy any meaning.”
― Haruki Murakami

tags: explanation, meaning, symbiosis, understanding

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“I am firmly convinced that we must never judge political movements by their aims, no matter how loudly proclaimed or how sincerely upheld, but only by the means they use to realize these aims.”
― Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations

tags: political-philosophy, politics, wisdom

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