Banzan Quotes & Sayings

What's in a name? The accumulation of reputations from all who've owned it before you. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Awe is the gateway to compassion. It is a deep awareness that we are creators, creators who work with the Creator, in an ongoing project of crafting a world. If we do not like the world or are afraid of it, we have had a hand in that. And if we made a mess, we can clean it up and do better. We are what we make. — Diana Butler Bass

Faults and defects every work of man must have. — Samuel Johnson

Seek out habits that help you overcome fear or inertia. Destroy those that do the opposite. — Seth Godin

A koan is like a riddle that's supposed to help you toward enlightenment in Zen Buddhism. For my answer, I wrote about this guy Banzan. He was walking through the market on day when he overheard someone ask a butcher for his best piece of meat. The butcher answered, "Everything in my shop is the best. You cannot find a piece of meat that is not the best." Upon hearing this, Banzan realized that there is no best and no worst, that those judgments have no real meaning because there is only was is, and poof, he reached enlightenment. — John Green

That was my great ambition. Not to be Illea's princess. To be Aspen's. — Kiera Cass

The alliance between the US and Pakistan is thus predominantly between the US and the Pakistani military. — Mohsin Hamid