Sorim Quotes & Sayings

My following is straight. I'm so glad. — Paul Lynde

Once Seung Sahn Soen-sa and a student of his attended a talk at a Zen center in California. The Dharma teacher spoke about Bodhidharma. After the talk, someone asked him "What's the difference between Bodhidharma's sitting in Sorim for nine years and your sitting here now?"
The Dharma teacher said, "About five thousand miles."
The questioner said, "Is that all?"
The Dharma teacher said, "Give or take a few miles."
Later on, Soen-sa asked his student, "What do you think of these answers?"
"Not bad, not good. But the dog runs after the bone."
"How would you answer?"
"I'd say, 'Why do you make a difference?' "
Soen-sa said, "Not bad. Now you ask me."
"What's the difference between Bodhidharma's sitting in Sorim for nine years and your sitting here now?"
"Don't you know?"
"I'm listening."
"Bodhidharma sat in Sorim for nine years. I am sitting here now."
The student smiled. — Seung Sahn

Everything is all right,
When you're here,
When you're right next to me,
When my hand is in yours,
Don't leave me,
Don't leave me empty handed. — Elizabeth Brooks

I'm always drawn to melancholy personalities. — Rene Russo

Sometimes people look to others for answers they can find within themselves. I don't really want the responsibility of being the guy they look to. — Matthew Fox

He remembered his family with deep feelings of love. — Franz Kafka

He never had anything for all of his life, and regarded being rich as akin to living full time on the moon, but suddenly he felt as though he was the wealthiest man on Earth. — Sarah Noffke

Kitsch is Mechanical and operates by formulas. — Clement Greenberg

Always open, to risk and danger, to fun and laughter; to let in life and let out love. — Dave Preston

In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth. — Marianne Williamson

In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character. — Cal Thomas

But the longer and further I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind- a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus. — Scott Jurek

The world turned itself into a better place around him. — Rainbow Rowell

Well, she wasn't strong enough to avoid being the background of my art. Just the background. Her words just my canvas. — Janet Fitch

In their hallway, he looked slightly less presidential, but only because the heat had made him messily roll up the sleeves of his button-down shirt and remove his tie. His dusty brown hair was mussed, too, in that way that Virginia warmth always managed. But the watch was still there, large enough to knock out bank robbers, and he still had that handsome glow. The glow that meant that not only had he never been poor, but his father hadn't, nor his father's father, nor his father's father's father. — Maggie Stiefvater