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Shunryu Suzuki
Shunryu Suzuki
2007·San Francisco, USA

There are, strictly speaking, no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity.

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1970·San Francisco, United States

What we call 'I' is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. It just moves; that is all. When your mind is pure and calm enough to follow this movement, there is nothing: no 'I,' no world, no mind nor body; just a swinging door.

1981

When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

1970

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few.

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Carl JungCarl Jung·1945

One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

Ralph Waldo EmersonRalph Waldo Emerson·1841

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

PlatoPlato·375 BC

Last of all he will be able to see the sun, not turning aside to the illusory reflections of it in the water, but gazing directly at it in its own proper place and contemplating it as it is.

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