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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
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‘If you do not face your weaknesses, how do you know where to be strong?’
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
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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.”
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“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few”
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
― Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
“I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.”
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
― The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
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