Bryan Jenks

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Bryan is Currently Reading

Bryan Jenks is currently reading

He Who Fights with Monsters (He Who Fights with Monsters, #1)

by Shirtaloon (Goodreads Author)

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— 21 hours, 54 min ago

Jan 24, 2026 10:20PM

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Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: 50th Anniversary Edition

by Shunryu Suzuki

bookshelves: favorite-books, 5-star, philosophy, non-fiction, currently-reading

Reading for the 2nd time

read in February 2023

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Bryan Jenks said: " This will likely be one of the best books I read this year if not one of the best I read ever. I cannot express how impactful and penetrating the wisdom in these assembled words has been to me at this stage of my life and just as I was beginning Zaze ...more "

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— Jan 23, 2026 07:52AM

Feb 03, 2023 10:10AM · see review

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This Inevitable Ruin (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #7)

by Matt Dinniman (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: _dont-own-physical, currently-reading, fiction, litrpg

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— Jan 22, 2026 10:16PM

Jan 15, 2026 10:26PM

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Bryan’s Notes & Highlights

Tilly in Technicolor by Mazey Eddings

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“A hundred good ideas or absolutely none, you add value just by being you.”

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Bryan’s Quotes

“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

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“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

tags: cat, cat-people, cats, integrity, meditation, peace, sereneity, spirituality, wisdom, zen, zen-master

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“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

tags: inspirational, philosophy, zen

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“Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.”
― Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

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“The only time you look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.”
― Louis C.K.

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