“We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome.”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”
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“A famous Japanese Zen master, Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, said that unless you can explain Zen in words that a fisherman will comprehend, you don’t know what you’re talking about. Some fifty years ago a UCLA professor told me the same thing about applied mathematics. We like to hide from the truth behind foreign-sounding words or mathematical lingo. There’s a saying: The truth is always encountered but rarely perceived. If we don’t perceive it, we can’t help ourselves and we can’t much help anyone else.”
― The Dude and the Zen Master
― The Dude and the Zen Master
“Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.”
― The Lover's Watch
― The Lover's Watch
“No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.”
― The Rover
― The Rover
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