Shigemura Tamotsu Quotes & Sayings

It is characteristic of theistic "tolerance" that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe. — Emma Goldman

There is nothing passive about mindfulness. One might even say that it expresses a specific kind of passion - a passion for discerning what is subjectively real in every moment. It is a mode of cognition that is, above all, undistracted, accepting, and (ultimately) nonconceptual. Being mindful is not a matter of thinking more clearly about experience; it is the act of experiencing more clearly, including the arising of thoughts themselves. Mindfulness is a vivid awareness of whatever is appearing in one's mind or body - thoughts, sensations, moods - without grasping at the pleasant or recoiling from the unpleasant. — Sam Harris

We need to learn to dance more softly. — Nikki Rosen

I've come to think that if doing something simple or silly can give a person pleasure, then, by God, do it — Susan Vreeland

For tradition also and always means inhibition. — Stefan Zweig