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D.T. Suzuki
“No amount of wordy explanations will ever lead us into the nature of our own selves. The more you explain, the further it runs away from you. It is like trying to get hold of your own shadow. You run after it and it runs with you at the identical rate of speed.”
D.T. Suzuki, Essays in Zen Buddhism

D.T. Suzuki
“the finger pointing at the moon remains a finger and under no circumstances can it be changed into the moon itself.”
D.T. Suzuki, An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

D.T. Suzuki
“But nothing awakens religious consciousness like suffering.”
D.T. Suzuki, Buddha of Infinite Light

Italo Calvino
“What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”
Italo Calvino, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Octavio Paz
“All is visible and all elusive,
all is near and can’t be touched.”
Octavio Paz

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