Yasutani Hakuun Quotes & Sayings

Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother
About one vice and fall into another. — Alexander Pope

Love is the ultimate revelation, the final sanctuary. — Toyohiko Kagawa

Even though flowers fall, don't regret it. Even though weeds grow, don't hate them. Don't arouse the passions of attraction and repulsion, hating and loving. If only we don't arouse the passions, the falling of flowers and the growing of weeds as they are is manifest absolute reality. — Hakuun Yasutani

I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!! — Minoru Furuya

A famous Japanese Zen master, Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, said that unless you can explain Zen in words that a fisherman will comprehend, you don't know what you're talking about. Some fifty years ago a UCLA professor told me the same thing about applied mathematics. We like to hide from the truth behind foreign-sounding words or mathematical lingo. There's a saying: The truth is always encountered but rarely perceived. If we don't perceive it, we can't help ourselves and we can't much help anyone else. — Jeff Bridges

Nations don't start out. There is not a particular moment when they unveil the essence of themselves. They are always a work in progress. — Simon Schama

That helped give me a sense of normal. And getting back to normal was everything. Everybody was counting on me to be normal. — Haruki Murakami

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. — James A. Garfield

This is the man who called the fire department when the toilet backed up, and I'm asking him for help. What was I thinking? Why am I attracted to weak men? — Christopher Moore

[Mankind has] allowed worldly desires and pleasures to fill the heart and mind. Whatever the sin, we need to repent and turn to Jesus Christ in faith for forgiveness and new life. — Billy Graham

I can paint love and pain and honor and longing and any goddamn emotion you want to name. But saying it? Showing it? I'm not good at that, baby. — J. Kenner