In This Body, In This Lifetime Quotes

“Until then I had been trapped, enclosed in a narrow and hard shell, unable to move. With the progress of the practice my self-centeredness started to recede. And freed from distracting thoughts, gradually I was able to break out into an expansive, bright world.”
― Sozen Nagasawa Roshi, In This Body, In This Lifetime: Awakening Stories of Japanese Soto Zen Women