Koan Quotes
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Koan Quotes & Sayings
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The will of God is single and totally one in Him.
— William Ames
Hearing a crow with no mouth
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born. — Ikkyu
Cry in the deep
Darkness of the night,
I feel a longing for
My father before he was born. — Ikkyu
one of the first to provide poor invalids with a level of care that had previously been available only to the rich. In
— Jennet Conant
Don't be too quick in your assessment of God's gifts to you. Thank him. Moment by moment. Day by day.
— Max Lucado
Robert calmly, like an Oriental sage himself, treated the situation as if it were a koan, a riddle to be entered until its very assumptions shifted.
— Mark Nepo
You listen to people, you listen so deeply that you can hear their past lives,
The crackle of their funeral pyres, — Dick Allen
The crackle of their funeral pyres, — Dick Allen
That stone Buddha deserves all the
birdshit it gets
I wave my skinny arms like a tall
flower in the wind — Ikkyu
birdshit it gets
I wave my skinny arms like a tall
flower in the wind — Ikkyu
Christopher, like most people, didn't like his universe being unfathomable, so I doubted that a Zen koan would help him.
— Scarlett Thomas
My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.
— Milo Ventimiglia
Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes of koan study.
— Frederick Lenz