If we achieve satori and the ...

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.
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

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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
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have to have the service mentality in the sense that you subjugate your own ego, and you subjugate a large part of your own life to really helping other people, being successful on their behalf.
 Herb Kelleher
Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

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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
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
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