First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.


Zen Aphorism

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Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
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I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER
My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER
There is a story, there is a scene which you always miss and you never pay attention at it... (The R...
DEYTH BANGER
Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK
There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY
Hakuna mimi katika umoja. Kuna sisi.
ENOCK MAREGESI
When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE
Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON
I decided there and then to sue the bastards.
BARRY SHEENE
There is BEAUTY in every1, every-thing, every-place.All of life is either LOVE or a call for love. U...
ANGIE KARAN
Today here, then there, then DEAD (IT"S A FACT, you can't do anything just take it like this.... or ...
DEYTH BANGER
If there is no love, how can there be passion or reason?
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Ready are you? What know you of ready? For eight hundred years have I trained Jedi. My own counsel w...
YODA
There is no mountain peak that cannot be touched by love.
SORIN CERIN
For every mountain there is a miracle.
ROBERT H. SCHULLER
The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
JEANNE MOREAU
The Anatomy of Conflict:

If there is no communication then there is no respect. If there ...
SHANNON L. ALDER
You never can't put bad down, there is always something tricky... nothing is so easy if it's easy. I...
DEYTH BANGER
Mist around a mountain: all reality is there.
MARTY RUBIN
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
A mountain is broken even by a thunderbolt: is the thunderbolt therefore as big as the mountain? No,...
CHANAKYA
You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.
J.D. SALINGER
And then split his own cranium in half. I would like to see you do that yourself Blore. It would tak...
LOMBARD PHILIP LOMBARD
There is no worry about what I can do during the mountain stages,
ALEJANDRO VALVERDE
No matter how tall the mountain is, there is always a road to the top of it.
VIKRANT PARSAI
If Moses is not coming to the mountain, then the mountain will come to Moses
DUTCH PROVERB
There is always a mountain ahead, that must be conquered.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
He's no longer out there on a mountain alone.
LEANE ROSS
Just a moment ago, I was thinking of postponing my dream for tomorrow, but I decided to take a look ...
PHILIP T. M.
Be there next time when the happiness will visit you.
MARIANA FULGER
If you haven't been there, use your imagination. Imagination takes you everywhere.
EPHDAN
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
DR. SUESS
He wanted to tell her how much he preferred to look at her, that only by watching could he memorize ...
JERZY KOSINKSI
Just 'cause you can't see me don't mean I gone away.
JODI PICOULT
We have them just where they want us.
JAMES T. KIRK
It started somewhere from there.
DEYTH BANGER
You check out the cover, you check out the backward, you check out the author, you check out the tit...
DEYTH BANGER
There is not enough love and goodness in the world for us to be permitted to give any of it away to ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
In life, when you look pass the horizon, there is a mountain, when you have climbed that mountain yo...
GIDEON O. OMORUYI
If mountain lions were conducive to preying upon humans, there would be far more incidents. The aver...
TYLER BASKFIELD
If at first the idea is absurd, then there is no hope for it.
ARISTOTLE
There is no right or wrong path to climb the mountain to enlightenment as long as you continue to cl...
CELESTINE L. GRAY
Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD
All saints are gonna be there? Tre, you might get laid!
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG
Don't use it because it is available for you. It is available for you just in case you need it.
EPHDAN
A tough lesson we must learn in life is that....NOT everyone is going to wish you well, not everyone...
JESSICA FAYE HAMMER
Sometimes we do not realize how many people give a damn until something horrible happens. And someti...
MONIKA BASILE
I may not be the kind of person you want me to, but I will always be there for you.
ALFUSAINEY JALLOW
Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are n...
LIONEL SHRIVER
Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no m...
DEAN INGE
Stop punishing yourself for things not accomplish yet in life. As long as there is life, there is ho...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
A reputation is what you hear when no one is there to speak for it.
JEFFREY FRY
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
JAMES ROGERS
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
THEODORE ROETHKE
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
JAMES ROGERS
If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it
ALBERT EINSTEIN
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The description is not the described; I can describe the mountain, but the description is not the mo...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI
On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist....
LARRY NIVEN
I've realised that at the top of the mountain, there's another mountain.
ANDREW GARFIELD
Mountain’s realization comes through the details of the breath, mountain appears in each step. Mou...
JOAN HALIFAX
When a person denies his conscience for too long, it can become seared. That person becomes suscepti...
HENRY HON
You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI
Let's beat Army first, then take on the Mountain West for a fantastic finish to a historic season.
CHET GLADCHUK
There is no money in poetry, but then there is no poetry in money either.
ROBERT GRAVES
I like the ephemeral thing about theatre, every performance is like a ghost - it's there and the...
MAGGIE SMITH
He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play s...
MARY LOU WILLIAMS
The more you know, the less you need.
YVON CHOUINARD
Durango has a lot of deer and a lot of good mountain lion habitat, so there are mountain lions in th...
PATT DORSEY
There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but the view is always the same
CHINESE PROVERBS
If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no...
DALAI LAMA XIV
Wheresoever thou findest a high mountain or a lofty hill and a green tree, know that an idol is ther...
AKIVA BEN JOSEPH
First place is awesome. Number two is OK. Three is tough. Four is the pits. Then there is no number ...
ANN WINBLAD
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EDDIE VAN HALEN
There is no prettier fall then carnival
TOON HERMANS
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LEONARD COHEN
Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?
STANISłAW LEM
There is nothing more difficult to define than an aphorism.
UMBERTO ECO
When it comes to being there for others or for yourself, you should always pick for others...if you'...
ANDRE FRATTINO
What you guys want, I'm for.
DAN QUAYLE
If you don 't have explanation of what's happening around the world... I think somebody else knows p...
DEYTH BANGER
I hate being in my shoes
...

I am a deadman there!
DEYTH BANGER
Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, ...
TERRY PRATCHETT
Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED
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GARY F EVANS...
Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER
Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER
To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS...
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER
If you put deer and (ground) cover together, it's possible that mountain lions could be there. Bould...
TYLER BASKFIELD
There was a mountain of grief to be climbed, and no amount of talk would help me up it.
J.P. DELANEY
There is no crueler hells then committee work....
ROBERT JACKSON BENNETT
There are naked people in boots on a mountain top firing guns.
ANDY RICHTER
There comes a point when the king comes down off the mountain,
JEFF DANIELS
The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgo...
WARREN CUCCURULLO
I finished high school there and then I went to Rhode Island School of Design.
STEPHEN SPROUSE
When you're travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your pa...
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More Zen Aphorism

Man says--"So, so." Heaven says--"No, no."
APHORISM
May we exist like a lotus, / At home in the muddy water. / Thus we bow to life as it is.
ZEN
A word missing from the dictionary: Suffercating: When the heart, spirit, mind are in great sadness ...
ZEN GRAND MASTER ZEN
The simplest thing are the things a that appeal most to the heart. A simple hug, kiss and smile from...
ZEN GRAND MASTER ZEN
The inifinite is in the finite of every instant.
ZEN SAYING
Hide your body in the Big Dipper
ZEN PROVERB
Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you u...
ZEN SAYING
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor an...
ZEN BUDDHIST
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
ZEN PROVERB
By appointing their own bishops hastily and illegally, they [the Patriotic Catholic Association] tri...
CARDINAL ZEN
And especially the newer bishops. Everybody knows they were appointed by the Holy Father.
CARDINAL ZEN
The final word should not be exclusively on the side of an atheist government.
CARDINAL ZEN
My impression is that they've entered into real talks.
CARDINAL ZEN
Only the Holy Father can decide which men are suitable. But if the government is worried about an ap...
CARDINAL ZEN
But there will be time.
CARDINAL ZEN
Winter has passed, and spring has come. The seeds you have sown with tears will bear fruit very soon...
CARDINAL ZEN
Yet it is not my blood that has been shed -- it is the bleeding tears from the numerous, nameless, h...
CARDINAL ZEN
I agree mainland China's situation is different. The Vatican may make concessions and let China give...
CARDINAL ZEN
I can confidently say these are not major problems. They can be overcome.
CARDINAL ZEN
Hide your body in the Big Dipper.
ZEN SAYING
Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. -Zen saying.
ZEN SAYING
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.
ZEN PROVERB
Better to see the face than to hear the name.
ZEN SAYING
No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.
ZEN PROVERB
Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water.
ZEN PROVERB
Knock on the sky and listen to the sound
ZEN SAYING
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.
ZEN PROVERB
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
ZEN PROVERB
Those who know don't tell and those who tell don't know.
ZEN PROVERB
The infinite is in the finite of every instant
ZEN PROVERB
There is Buddha for those who don't know what he is, really. There is no Buddha for those who know w...
ZEN PROVERB
A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.
ZEN SHIN
Better to see the face than to hear the name
ZEN PROVERB
When walking, walk. When eating, eat.
ZEN PROVERB
When you eat, the meal is yourself
ZEN PROVERB
Because they are having full power in many places, and especially at the national level, they are ab...
CARDINAL ZEN
Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind
ZEN PROVERB
If you have no feelings about worldly things, they are all Buddhism; if you have feelings about Budd...
ZEN PROVERB
From the withered tree, a flower blooms
ZEN PROVERB
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself
ZEN PROVERB
Scratch first, itch later.
ZEN PROVERB
After enlightenment, the laundry.
ZEN PROVERB
Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life - after that you cannot be deceived
ZEN PROVERB
A monk asked Master Haryo, 'What is the way?' Haryo said, 'An open-eyed man falling into the well
ZEN KOAN
Dan di hadapan kekuasaan, hal paling mudah yang mesti dilakukan, adalah merawat baik-baik ingatan.
ZEN RS
When you seek it, you cannot find it.
ZEN PROVERB
Strange how a teapot Can represent at the same time The comforts of solitude And the pleasures of co...
ZEN HAIKU
Move and the way will open
ZEN PROVERB
Appreciate and be grateful for everyday.
INDEPENDENT ZEN
Life is beautiful. Live every day in the present. Be grateful for who you are and appreciate the wor...
INDEPENDENT ZEN
Love is powerful. If you want more of it in your life be grateful for what you have and love wheneve...
INDEPENDENT ZEN
Positive Mind. Believe in goodness, kindness, graciousness, compassion, goodwill and love.
INDEPENDENT ZEN
How could you die and not be old enough to hear about premarital sex? How could you die and still no...
ZEN CHO
But one may like someone enough to kiss them without liking them enough to confide in them. The two ...
ZEN CHO
I thought: if I die, I hope I get reincarnated into a mosquito so I can bite that fucker kau-kau.
ZEN CHO
Other dragons are bastards. I moved out of my mother's cave after my mother tried to rip my guts out...
ZEN CHO
Magic ran in the family. Even her mother's second cousin, who was adopted, did small spells on the s...
ZEN CHO
Love was like swallowing a cili padi whole.
ZEN CHO
He would gaze at her with intrigued longan seed eyes.
ZEN CHO
But a woman should not marry where there is no respect. Respect is the most important thing.
ZEN CHO