Quotes

"Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself."
- Erich Fromm

"Silence, exile, cunning, and so on. It's my nature to keep quiet about most things."
-James Joyce

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they saw." - Basho

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they saw."
- Basho

"To set up what you like against what you dislike-- this is the disease of the mind." - Seng-T'san

"To set up what you like against what you dislike-- this is the disease of the mind."
- Seng-T'san

? 3 qualities necessary for training

"Great faith. Great doubt. Great effort."
-Zen proverb on the 3 qualities necessary for training

"If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water."
- Bulgarian proverb

"In the beginner's mind there are many possiblities but in the expert's there are few."

out of clutter find simplicity

"1. Out of clutter, find simplicity.
2. From dischord, find harmony.
3.In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

"You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair."
- Deshi Maru

"One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak."
- G. Chesterborn

"I have an underwater camera just in case I crash my car into a river, and at the last minute I see a photo opportunity of a fish that I have never seen."
- Mitch Hedberg

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
- Hunter S. Thompson

"The only joy in the world is to begin."
- Cesare Pavese

"Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid."
- Goethe

"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."
- Jalal Ud-Din Rumi