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  • Sonny Rollins

    ‘What I need to know is that being a person who understands that giving is better…

  • Gesshin Claire Greenwood

    ‘ Practicing in a monastic or residential environment always shows me how selfish I am. It…

  • The Diamond Sutra

    ‘Do not think that when one gives rise to the highest, most fulfilled, awakened mind, one…

  • Dogen

    ‘The moon on the water is vast and boundless, the boat oars quiet. The snow clouds…

  • Blanche Hartman

    ‘Life is too short to waste it on judging other people by whatever standards we may…

  • Issho Fujita

    ‘The time spent sitting with nothing to gain and nothing to realize may seem to be…

  • Virginia

    ‘For years, because of my upbringing, I wanted others to see me as being perfect, so…

  • Gesshin Claire Greenwood

    ‘When I really looked into justice, when I really began examining how transformation of society is…

  • Jenny Odell

    ‘The point of doing nothing, as I define it, isn’t to return to work refreshed and…

  • Diane Eshin Rizzetto

    ‘This is what practice teaches us – always question, and never look for the answers. Just…