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Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.
Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance.
 Taisen Deshimaru

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
A lot of people change for good. Some people just fall off. Just trying to progress in anything, no matter what you're doing, I feel like any progression you make... some people aren't gonna be around you that were around you.
 Dave East
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
Don't settle in the land of barely enough. That is where you are, it is not who you are. That's your location, it's not your identity. No matter what it looks like, have an abundant mentality.
Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.

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You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.
 Taisen Deshimaru
To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant
 Taisen Deshimaru
The silence of the mountain is even more beautiful once the birds are quiet.
 Taisen Deshimaru
If we achieve satori and the satori shows, like a bit of dogshit stuck to the top of our nose, that is not so good.
 Taisen Deshimaru
Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the desert can pass through them. Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of grit.
 Taisen Deshimaru