Sawaki Kodo Quotes & Sayings

No matter how many years you sit doing zazen, you will never become anything special. — Kodo Sawaki

I almost never respect men. They're like flowers
all show, a lot of color and lust. You pick them and throw them on the ground. — Barbara Kingsolver

It was a sort of loser luck, I guess, the luck of the cigarette-smoking ghost-grannies who shuffled the scuffed linoleum, but I'd take it over no luck at all. — Michelle Tea

I do find it strange, doing magazine shoots. Photographers always go, 'Why don't you like to have your picture taken? That's what you do for a living anyway. Just pretend you're acting. It's the same thing!' — James McAvoy

But far-fetched things do happen. In fact, many people's entire lives are completely far-fetched. I think we are constantly surrounded by extraordinary possibilities. Whether we are aware of them or not, whether we choose to act on them or not, they are there. What is offered to us that we choose not to act upon falls by the wayside, and the road that is our life is littered with rejected, ignore
d and unnoticed opportunities, good and bad. Chance meetings and coincidences become extraordinary only when acted upon. Those that we allow to pass us by are gone forever. We never know where they night have taken us. I think they were never meant to happen. The potiental was there, but only for the briefest moment, before we consciously or unconsciously chose to ignore it. — Linda Olsson

To be born as a human being is a rare thing, something to be grateful for. But being born as a human being is worthless if you spend your whole life in a mental hospital. It is worthless if you worry about not having money. It is worthless if you become neurotic because you cannot get a prestigious job. It is worthless if you weep because you lose your girlfriend. — Kodo Sawaki

Religion means living your own life, completely fresh and new, without being taken in by anyone. — Kodo Sawaki

Gain is delusion; loss is enlightenment. — Kodo Sawaki

I came from a very normal, un-Hollywood background. My parents provided me with every sort of normal upbringing that they could. — Jodie Sweetin

Prayer is your personal key to heaven. — Boyd K. Packer

Intelligent? Kind? — Nicholas Sparks

You can't even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don't waste time thinking about who's most talented. — Kodo Sawaki

Satori has no beginning; practice has not end! — Kodo Sawaki

I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it. — George H. W. Bush

Heaven and Earth give themselves. Air, water, plants, animals, and humans give themselves to each other. It is in this giving-themselves-to-each-other that we actually live. Whether you appreciate it or not, it is true. — Kodo Sawaki

Only a lion can recognize a lion's roar. — Kodo Sawaki

Gale and I were thrown together by a mutual need to survive. Peeta and I know the other's survival means our own death. How do you side step that? — Suzanne Collins

California is now close to spending more on prisons than it does on higher education - surely the death warrant of a civilization. — Molly Ivins

Live the Self that fills the whole Universe. — Kodo Sawaki

We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen. — Kodo Sawaki

Unconditional love corresponds to one of the deepest longings, not only of the child, but of every human being; on the other hand, to be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me,
maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear. Furthermore, "deserved" love easily leaves a bitter feeling that one is not loved for oneself, that one is loved only because one pleases, that one is, in the last analysis, not loved at all but used. — Erich Fromm

A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. — Albert Einstein

You don't seek the way. The way seeks you. — Kodo Sawaki

My love ... I don't always want you tied up. I want you free. I want you wild. I want you brave. I want you any way I can get you. I want you now, and I want you for the rest of my life. — L. H. Cosway

If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven ... — Saint Augustine