Sprayer Tank Quotes & Sayings

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

My parents are a wonderful mixture of bohemian eccentric, but also incredibly practical and not airy-fairy. — Sophie Kennedy Clark

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. — Ayn Rand

Take care of your words and the words will take care of you. — Amit Ray

This was beyond a joke. This had moved beyond foolishness, slipped over the line into genuine 24 karat Jesus-Christ-I-fucked-up-bigtime territory. — Neil Gaiman

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. — James Reston

We are more tied to our faults than to our virtues. — Mason Cooley

For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache. — Iain Pears

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...'All this suffering,' I said, 'and nothing but greed and violence to build on when the war is over.'
'Have another soda-mint,' said Charles.
I had one. Then I said, 'Why are we here? That's what I don't understand. Why be here at all when it all has to be so beastly?'
'I suppose we just came, like mould on cheese.'
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Watching dance isn't about picking up moves. It's about noting the relationships between motion and space and rhythm to absorb a greater concept — Kathryn Craft

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When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price. — Vladimir Lenin

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But the purpose of stories was to take the ugly, terrifying truths with which one must live and turn them into brave and beautiful ideas one might love. — Mercedes Lackey