Sesshin Quotes & Sayings

This king governs without decapitation or corporal punishments. Criminals are simply fined, lightly or heavily, according to the circumstances. Even in cases of repeated attempts at wicked rebellion, they only have their right hands cut off ... Throughout the country the people do not kill any living creature ... — Faxian

Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands. — Edward Gibbon

I've got a woman. A crazy woman." "Sounds like the start of a country song to me," I said. — Cherie Priest

The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them. — Ramana Maharshi

Spooky things, people, places, scents and sounds together or alone can create a powerful adrenalin rush and it floods the senses. — StorySmitten

To sit a long sesshin is a major blow to our hopes and dreams, the barriers to enlightenment. And to say that there is no hope is not at all pessimistic. There can be no hope because there is nothing but this very moment. When we hope, we are anxious because we get lost between where we are and where we hope to be. No hope (nonattachment, the enlightened state) is a life of settledness, of equanimity, of genuine thought and emotion. It is the fruit of true practice, always beneficial to oneself and to others, and worth the endless devotion and practice it entails. — Charlotte Joko Beck

It is your own habits of thinking which give you mastery in any field of achievement — David Wolfe

Chief executives that are successful make good chief executives. — Scott Walker

Come here, baby." And with my words, Echo leaned into me soft, pliant, broken. "You're not alone," I whispered into her hair as I cradled her in my arms. "You're not alone, because you have me." And I love you, more than you could ever know — Katie McGarry