Sesshin Zen Quotes & Sayings

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years
it took the experience of lived time
to realize that they really are the same thing. — Elif Batuman

Know, in every moment, that you have attracted this situation into your life experience so you can grow and learn the lessons necessary to get to the next level. — Dashama Konah Gordon

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing. — Linn Ullmann

Be grateful to everyone is about making peace with the aspects of ourselves that we have rejected ... If we were to make a list of people we don't like - people we find obnoxious, threatening, or worthy of contempt - we would discover much about those aspects of ourselves that we can't face ... other people trigger the karma that we haven't worked out. — Pema Chodron

It started when I moved into a vegetarian co-op back in the '70s, and that's really when I had my food consciousness awakened. I learned how to cook, and eventually I became the food buyer for the entire co-op. Not long after that, I went to work for a small natural food store in Austin, and I became very excited and passionate about it. — John Mackey

The idea that every time you do a film you're supposed to be tortured confuses me. I mean, guys who say, 'Oh, it's really tough, my character is really suffering' -come on. For us, even in the rotten ones we've had a good time. I don't think you have to suffer. — George Clooney

I'm sure that there must have been times when you have read books or watched films and found yourself secretly wishing for the villain to win. Why? Isn't that against the rules by which our society lives? Why should you feel this way? It's simple, really; the villain is the true hero of these tales, not the well-intentioned moron who somehow foils their diabolical scheme. The villain get's all the best lines, has the best costumes, has unlimited power and wealth- why on earth would anyone not want to be the villain? — Mark Walden

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school, So? Did you learn anything today? But not my mother. Izzy, she would say, did you ask a good question today? That difference - asking good questions - made me become a scientist. — Isidor Isaac Rabi

It's your rich life," Alyosha said softly. "Why, is it better to be poor?" "Yes, it is. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away. — Michelle Rowen

But I caught up with him and he didn't resist when I put my arm around him and we walked on together like that. — Anne Rice

He had a knack for expressing sober what most men only dared say drunk. — Jacob M. Appel