“Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can t ever lose.”
“Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all men, and all the history of mankind, in the light of God. To pray in spirit and in truth enables us to enter into contact with that infinite love, that inscrutable freedom which is at work behind the complexities and the intricacies of human existence. This does not mean fabricating for ourselves pious rationalizations to explain everything that happens. It involves no surreptitious manipulation of the hard truths of life.”
“Every loving word and action create a far reaching ripple effect - like the waves of the ocean.”
“The hardest time in this world is for the sensitive and intelligent people.”
“Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work. Some, however, do not understand Brahman, but having heard from others, take to worship. They also transcend death by their firm faith to what they have heard.”
“In an age of bombs guzzling blood, skylarks merge peace with thought and action.”
“Gary Sherman has written a truly insightful and helpful book that will positively change the lives of its readers. Although many books have wise teachings, few have accessible, reliable and transformative practices like this one. I highly recommend this book.”
“Meditation is misunderstood as something you envision in your head, when in fact it is something to be seen with your own eyes. What you begin to see is that the place where you thought your life occurred - the cave of rumination and memory, the cauldron of anxiety and fear - isn t where your life takes place at all. Those mental recesses are where pain occurs, but life occurs elsewhere, in a place we are usually too preoccupied to notice, too distracted to see: right in front of our eyes. The point of meditation is to stop making things up and see things as they are.”
“Practicing art is a meditation; an artwork is an insight.”
“Can one n/ever not think?...Meditation the Art of Non-Thinking”
“Do not desire a long life or an early death”
“If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position”
“I m completely out of control, and I can hear the beginnings of the chant, get/out/, but now that I m not being touched maybe I can master it and I shut the world out: separating an orange into skinless sections. Peel it, but not with your fingers. Level off the top and bottom. Set it on the board. Remove the peel in strips with a paring knife, pushing down from the top to bottom with slow, curved strokes. Nick off all the white parts. Cup the cool, wet skinless fruit in your hand. Take care. Don t rush. Press the blade into the flesh of the orange, sink it down, a segment at a time, along the left side of the skin and then the right. Left and right. Left and right. As close as you can to the membrane. Press to the center with your knife, level and easy. If you cut right, the segment will fall out onto the board, triangular, gleaming. Left and right. Left and right. If you rush you ll cut yourself. Take care with it. Cut right along the seam, right where the sweet fruit meets the tough membrane. Let and right. Left and right. As close as you can.”
“Love is God, and the one that believes in love, believes in God.”
“Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration”
“If you won t improve yourself, who will?”
“Think, how hard it is to change yourself. How can it be easy to change others?”