Jekos Abulingeben Quotes & Sayings

This all feels so familiar. Jackson said a lot of these things to me the first time I got pulled. I didn't understand any of it then. I didn't understand him. But now I do. He'll tell each of us to be selfish, to watch our own backs and no one else's, but he'll be wholly unselfish, watching out for all of us, expecting no one to watch out for him. — Eve Silver

The practice of Zen mind is beginner's mind. The innocence of the first inquiry - what am I? - is needed throughout Zen practice. The mind of the beginner is empty, free of the habits of the expert, ready to accept, to doubt, and open to all the possibilities. It is the kind of mind which can see things as they are, which step by step and in a flash can realize the original nature of everything. — Shunryu Suzuki

We reject the way the world is at the moment and we don't accept nuclear weapons — Mairead Corrigan

Abstraction is an esoteric language. — Eric Fischl

And when one of her girlfriends asked why she loved him she answered that most men ran away from an inferno. But men like Ove ran into it. — Fredrik Backman

You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along. — Jacob Braude

It's a truism that love is blind; what's less obvious is just how much evidence it can ignore. — Margaret Heffernan