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Zen To Go

There ain't no answer. There ain't going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.
- GETRUDE STEIN

If you wish to obtain an orthodox understanding of Zen, do not be deceived by others. Inwardly or outwardly, if you encounter any obstacles kill them right away. If you encounter the Buddha, kill him.
- RINZAI

Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.
- ALDOUS HUXLEY

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
- G.K. CHESTERTON

Time is the longest distance between two places.
- TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

Life happens too fast for you to ever think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.
- KURT VONNEGUT

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
- ALBERT EINSTEIN

Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.
- WOODY ALLEN

It does not matter how slow you go so long as you do not stop.
- CONFUCIUS

Everyone is in the best seat.
- JOHN CAGE

I don't know. I don't care. And it doesn't make any difference.
- JACK KEROUAC

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.
- D.H. LAWRENCE

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinion at all.
- G.C. LICHTENBERG

When you're green, you're growing. When you're ripe, you rot.
- RAY KROC

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers
- JAMES THURBER

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
- ALEXANDRE DUMAS, fils

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
- HERMAN HESSE

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. Scratch where it itches.
- ALICE ROOSEVELT LONGWORTH

Learn your lines and don't trip over the furniture.
- SPENCER TRACY

Stay out of jail.
- ALFRED HITCHCOCK

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun. Yet, is it any more unusual to find grace in the texture and softly curved silhouette of a bun than to reflect lovingly on…the arrangement of textures and colors in a butterfly's wing?
- RAY KROC

Sacred cows make great hamburgers.
- ROBERT REISNER

There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having…money in the bank.
- TOM ROBBINS

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
- SAUL BELLOW

I think I think; therefore, I think I am.
- AMBROSE BIERCE

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
- ALBERT EINSTEIN

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
- PABLO PICASSO

Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb!
- NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
- TOM ROBBINS

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.
- KURT VONNEGUT

There must be more to life than having everything!
- MAURICE SENDAK

Think enough and you won't know anything.
- KENNETH PATCHEN

When you are at sea, keep clear of the land.
- PHBLILIUS SYRUS

Man, if you gotta ask, you'll never know.
- LOUIS ARMSTRONG

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I am happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
- CHARLES M. SCHULZ

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?
- SATCHEL PAIGE

The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.
- BABA RAM DAS

It takes a long time to understand nothing.
- EDWARD DAHLBERG

 


 

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