“Zen gives you tremendous dignity. There is no authority anywhere. Freedom is utter and ultimate.”
― Zen: The Path of Paradox
― Zen: The Path of Paradox
“Zen is a single step—the journey of one single step. You can call it the last step or the first step, it doesn’t matter. It is the first and it is the last, the alpha and the omega. The whole teaching of Zen consists of only one thing: how to take a jump into nothingness, how to come to the very end of your mind, which is the end of the world.”
― Zen: The Path of Paradox
― Zen: The Path of Paradox
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“There is no other space, no other time. This moment is all. In this moment the whole existence converges, in this moment all is available.”
― Zen: The Path of Paradox
― Zen: The Path of Paradox
“But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.”
― Fahrenheit 451
― Fahrenheit 451
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