Sawaki X Quotes & Sayings

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do. — Italo Calvino

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

Great is the Lord. He is worthy of praise. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain ... — Jason Mraz

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

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

Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people. — John Lennon

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

I didn't say anything at all, because somehow saying nothing seemed more humane than giving him all these reassurances. — Jennifer Brown

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

My master's degree was in journalism, but everything important I ever learned about being a journalist I learned on the job. — Rebecca Mead

In Syria, once, at the head-waters of the Jordan, a camel took charge of my overcoat while the tents were being pitched, and examined it with a critical eye, all over, with as much interest as if he had an idea of getting one made like it; and then, after he was done figuring on it as an article of apparel, he began to contemplate it as an article of diet. He put his foot on it, and lifted one of the sleeves out with his teeth, and chewed and chewed at it, gradually taking it in, and all the while opening and closing his eyes in a kind of religious ecstasy, as if he had never tasted anything as good as — Mark Twain

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

Although I did end up trying out several different fields before committing to acting, I knew in the deepest part of heart that I wanted to be an actress. — Gina Holden

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

We don't live in our fears. We live in our hopes. — Mike Tomlin

All I wanted was to be big, to be in show business and to travel ... and that's what I've been doing all my life. — Count Basie

Stoics held that material objects alone existed; but immanent in the material universe was a spiritual force which acted through them, manifesting itself under many forms, as fire, aether, spirit, soul, reason, the ruling principle. — Marcus Aurelius

When we look for differences instead of similarities, we create barriers for trust. — Garrison Wynn