#zen

I did become American citizen in order to vote. I lived in this country for a very long time and I finally reached the point where I thought, I'm often sticking my neck out on various issues as all human beings have a right to do. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#american citizen #become #beings #citizen #country

While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself. ↗

— Shunryu Suzuki

#zazen #zen-buddhism #experience

These past years, as we have been recovering and given our city a rebirth, we have been encouraged by our faith, knowledge, and steadfast belief that we will pull through. There will be challenges and setbacks, as there have already been, but we will continue, and we the citizens of New Orleans will prevail in bringing our city back. ↗

— Cedric Richmond

#back #been #belief #bringing #challenges

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens. ↗

— Tom Ridge

#gift #liberty #most #offer #our

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. ↗

— Lope de Vega

#dozen #envy #few #flowers #garden

They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women can do it. It's not just Kevin Costner, not just Arnold Schwarzenegger. Not just the guys. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#arnold schwarzenegger #costner #guys #i #i can

Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#books #dozen #dozen times #early #goddess

As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#artist #citizen #come #i #me

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace. ↗

— Paul Robeson

#citizenship #efforts #fields #fight #full

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time. ↗

— Jackie Robinson

#citizenship #every #first-class #important #important issue