#zen

Don't think of what you have to do, don't consider how to carry it out!" he exclaimed. "The shot will only go smoothly when it takes the archer himself by surprose. ↗

— Eugen Herrigel

#porup #writing #zen #art

Imagine you're so far away no matter what you do, no matter what you say, you couldn't stop the world for a moment. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#imagine #no-matter-what-you-say #no-metter-what-you-do #sara-quin #stop-the-world-for-a-moment

Pardon all runners, All speechless, alien winds, All mad waters. Pardon their impulses, Their wild attitudes, Their young flights, their reticence. When a message has no clothes on How can it be spoken. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#path #seekers #youth #zen #attitude

You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful. ↗

— Orson Welles

#citizen-kane #compliment #film #beauty

The economic, social and cultural progress of a nation depends on citizens counting for more and having more rights. ↗

— Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

#counting #cultural #depends #economic #having

Letting go is the lesson. Letting go is always the lesson. Have you ever noticed how much of our agony is all tied up with craving and loss? ↗

— Susan Gordon Lydon

#life #loss #zen #life

9. The Moon Cannot Be Stolen Ryokan, a Zen master, lived the simplest kind of life in a little hut at the foot of the mountain. One evening a thief visited the hut only to discover there was nothing in it to steal. Ryokan returned and caught him. "You may have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler, "and you should not return empty-handed. Please take my clothes as a gift." Ryokan sat naked, watching the moon. "Poor fellow," he mused, "I wish I could give him this beautiful moon. ↗

— Nyogen Senzaki

#zen-flesh-zen-bones #beauty

When everything is a priority, nothing is a priority. ↗

— Karen Martin

#continuous-improvement #kaizen #lean #process-design #process-improvement

Chaos is NOT a condition of doing business. ↗

— Karen Martin

#continuous-improvement #kaizen #lean #process-design #process-improvement

If a policy is wrongheaded feckless and corrupt I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed. ↗

— David H. Hackworth

#change #citizenship #policy #change