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#1

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: travel

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#2

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: apothegm, beauty, truth

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#3

“If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.”
― Emma Goldman

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#4

“Keep your heart clear
And transparent,
And you will
Never be bound.
A single disturbed thought
Creates ten thousand distractions.”
― Ryokan

tags: authenticity, honesty, meditation, thinking, thought

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#5

“Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.”
― Ryokan

tags: buddhism, buddhist, hermit, japan, japanese, monk, philosophers, philosophy, poem, poems, poetry, ryokan, seers, zen, zen-monk

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#6

“Why do you so earnestly seek
the truth in distant places?
Look for delusion and truth in the
bottom of your own heart.”
― Ryokan

tags: meaning, purpose, searching, truth

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#7

“The rain has stopped, the clouds have drifted away,and the weather is clear again. If your heart is pure, then all things in your world are pure... Then the moon and flowers will guide you along the Way”
― Ryokan, One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan

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#8

“In all ten directions of the universe, there is only one truth. When we see clearly, the great teachings are the same. What can ever be lost? What can be attained? If we attain something, it was there from the beginning of time. If we lose something, it is hiding somewhere near us.”
― Ryokan

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#9

“Good friends and excellent teachers - Stick close to them! Wealth and power are fleeting dreams but wise words perfume the world for ages.”
― Ryokan

tags: widsom

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#10

“When all thoughts
Are exhausted
I slip into the woods
And gather
A pile of shepherd's purse.

Like the little stream
Making its way
Through the mossy crevices
I, too, quietly
Turn clear and transparent.”
― Ryokan

tags: mind

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#11

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength, widely-misattributed

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#12

“Simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy

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#13

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu

tags: acceptance, change, life, reality, serenity

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#14

“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
mastering yourself is true power.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: wisdom

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#15

“The plants and flowers
I raised about my hut
I now surrender
To the will
Of the wind”
― Ryokan

tags: old-songs, parenthood, sword-sentiments, transcendence, wind

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#16

“If there is beauty, there must be ugliness;
If there is right, there must be wrong.
Wisdom and ignorance are complementary,
And illusion and enlightenment cannot be separated.
This is an old truth, don't think it was discovered recently.
"I want this, I want that"
Is nothing but foolishness.
I'll tell you a secret -
"All things are impermanent!”
― Ryokan, One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan

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#17

“See and realize that this world is not permanent. Neither late nor early flowers will remain.”
― Ryokan, Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan

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#18

“How can we ever lose interest in life? Spring has come again
And cherry trees bloom in the mountains.”
― Ryokan

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#19

“The flower invites the butterfly with no-mind;
The butterfly visits the flower with no-mind.
The flower opens, the butterfly comes;
The butterfly comes, the flower opens.
I don't know others,
Others don't know me.
By not-knowing we follow nature's course”
― Ryokan

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#20

“I don't tell the murky world
to turn pure.
I purify myself
and check my reflection
in the water of the valley brook.”
― Ryōkan, Sky Above, Great Wind: The Life and Poetry of Zen Master Ryokan

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#21

“I must go there today -
Tomorrow the plum blossoms
Will scatter.”
― Ryōkan, Dewdrops on a Lotus Leaf: Zen Poems of Ryokan

tags: awakening, buddhism, poetry, zen

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#22

“He never preached or exhorted, but his life radiated purity and joy, he was a living sermon.”
― Ryōkan, One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryōkan

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#23

“The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren’t created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

tags: inspirational, stardust, universe

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#24

“The body is our general medium for having a world.”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception

tags: body, perspective, phenomenology

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#25

“We know not through our intellect but through our experience.”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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#26

“The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself. ”
― Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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#28

“Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.”
― Hermann Hesse

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#28

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

tags: communication, foolishness, knowledge, sharing, teaching, wisdom

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#29

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

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#30

“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.”
― Hermann Hesse, Demian: Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

tags: inspiration, instinct, knowledge, search, seekers, self-awareness, self-discovery, understanding

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