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The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)


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The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.
YASUTANI ROSHI The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there
YASUTANI ROSHI The purpose of Zen is the perfection of character
YASUTANI ROSHI [Roshi] is also sometimes translated as old fart,
JAMES FORD If it is going to kill you,” Enso Roshi says, “then let it kill you.
T. SCOTT MCLEOD To control your cow, give it a bigger pasture. -Suzuki Roshi.
SUZUKI ROSHI A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?"

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SHUNRYU SUZUKI It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without go...
T. SCOTT MCLEOD I was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the m...
PHIL KNIGHT In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities. In the expert’s mind, there are few.
SUZUKI ROSHI Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there
ROBERT M. PIRSIG There once was this Zen master sitting on a small stone bench, studying his small Japanese rock gard...
YVON CHOUINARD The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
JULES RENARD The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.
ROBERT M. PIRSIG Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER Insanity is the greatest gift of humanity, for insanity talks to the mind of the delusion.
LIONEL SUGGS Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius and a lot...
ERNST F. SCHUMACHER "Our duty as soldiers, is to protect humanity. Whatever the cost." -Master Chief "You say that like ...
THOMAS LASKEY TO MASTER CHIEF A strong personal philosophy does more than sustain us through the tragedies of life. It also stains...
CHRIS PRENTISS The answers are never "out there." All the answers are "in there," inside you, waiting to be discove...
CHRIS PRENTISS Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always...
ROBERT M. PIRSIG But suppose one doesn't quite know which one wants to put first. Suppose," said Harriet, falling bac...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There are studies on biotech foods that date back to 1973.
GENE GRABOWSKI To me, the European Union says there is a charter that protects you; you have fundamental rights, an...
CARLES PUIGDEMONT At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when ...
YVON CHOUINARD Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE Walking away from something means believing for something more. And if I want something more, I must...
JAN DENISE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to believe...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even...
RICHARD DAWKINS The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
CHRIS PRENTISS One moment you are here, othere there, then there. Then you can't move!
DEYTH BANGER It is at moments like these that I know my what my purpose is in life. I am here to love you, to hol...
NICHOLAS SPARKS The greatest delusion of all is not realizing that you are always delusional.
AARON SANTOS I can make a couple of good sandwiches: tuna salad and chopped egg salad. And Greek bean soup. I was...
LEONARD COHEN Here. Here I am.
You've taken everything from us, but not who we are! We still exist! One day g...
BRUNO APITZ If I am required at the court and it is relevant, I suppose I will have to go. That is the law. Ther...
MAHATHIR MOHAMAD There are few times that I feel more at peace, more in tune, more Zen, if you will, than when I forc...
HARLAN COBEN I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but y...
DAISY ASHFORD There are many kinds of delusion.
MICHAEL ENDE Let this become your key - next time when anger comes, just watch it. Don't say, “I am angry.” S...
BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH There is wreckage everywhere. I am here, things here are very difficult, they are indescribable,
GEORGE PAPAGEORGIOU I suppose it is one time when you can really use your name to raise money. And if I am going to use ...
PRINCE HARRY I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the br...
JOHN NEWTON You are the master of my heart. I am a slave to you're soul. Intertwined in a perfect embrace that I...
TRUTH DEVOUR Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Relativism poses as humble by saying: “We are not smart enough to know what the truth is—or if t...
JOHN PIPER There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better under...
STEPHEN KING You are Exalted, Unfathomable, Infinite and Invaluable. You are my True Lord and Master. I am Your s...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship ...
LEONARD COHEN I suppose I have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, so it's no problem for me to bel...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS Everyone in my story has it's own character, GreenHollyWood cheeky, hypocritical and near to mad guy...
DEYTH BANGER Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind...
JUNG CHANG I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.
GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, There you are and th...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, "There you are" and ...
ABIGAIL VAN BUREN Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat...
DADA BHAGWAN I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER You prep, you prep, you prep. And on the day that you film, you let all of that go. I try to achieve...
JEFF BRIDGES That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on your way to the pertinen...
, THE ASCENT OF MAN, 1973 The zen of flyfishing is that zen masters don't fish.. the Buddha suffocates no creature.
O ANNA NIEMUS We must recognize our own behavioral errors. To be blunt, you are not likely to become a cognitive Z...
BARRY RITHOLTZ You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW No one has the right to monopolize any source of energy fundamental for humanity.
RICARDO ALARCON There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You h...
CORNEL WEST Be a master of yourself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where...
CHRIS PRENTISS I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me.
TERENCE The slave is not the one that labours like an animal for its master, but the mirror of non-humanity.
MARIANA FULGER I suppose my best attribute, if you want to call it that, is sincerity. I can sell sincerity because...
JOHN WAYNE I am a Ford, not a Lincoln." (On becoming vice president, December 1973)
GERALD FORD There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wa...
ANNA KOURNIKOVA There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can ...
DAVID MITCHELL I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things that I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than th...
ELLEN GLASGOW I want to save humanity from disaster but its turn out that humanity is the disaster.
EDGAR BARRON There are my thoughts, feelings, and sensations... and here I am.
REUBEN LOWE Every belief that you hold manifests itself in some manner by either causing you to take some form o...
CHRIS PRENTISS I am an artist... I am here to live out loud.
EMILE ZOLA I work out because that's my job, but what I enjoy about it, beyond the vanity, is the Zen of it...
CHRIS PINE There is a circle of humanity, he told me, and I can feel its warmth. But I am forever ...
SUSAN GRIFFIN The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. You just have t...
JUDY COLLINS The conditions out there were dreadful so I suppose I should be grateful for the two points finishes...
BEN WILSON When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my...
ORHAN PAMUK Part of the goal is getting here. The other is doing something once you are here, and he has to figu...
RANDY PFITZER From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere!
DR. SUESS There are two types of people - those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who...
FREDERICK L. COLLINS There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who ...
FREDERICK L COLLINS The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers.

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GEORGE ELIOT We all agreed that in order for it to happen there had to be some give here and there. I think one o...
JEFF FEAGLES There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wa...
ANNA KOURNIKOVA I am surprised how many fundraisers there are here. I also dress mothers of the bride and groom.
DOLORES VACCARELLI When you are editing, the final master is Aristotle and his poetics. You might have a terrific episo...
KEN BURNS It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that...
GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO i am not a hotel room. i am home
i am not the whiskey you want
i am the water you need
RUPI KAUR Who am I to deny my Master pleasure, simply because it is not at the hands of myself? He is free to ...
ASTRID KNOWLES I came to think of it as a kind of zen practice: the Zen of not fucking up.
SEBASTIAN JUNGER

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