From Dogen: “If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing.”
Tag Archives: understanding
Quote of the day 04/25/24
From Dogen: “If you are unable to find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?”
Quote of the day 04/19/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about.”
Quote of the day 03/29/24
From Ernest Hemingway: “As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand.”
Quote of the day 03/05/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
Quote of the day 02/28/24
From James Joyce: “Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
Quote of the day 02/20/24
From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.”
Quote of the day 02/06/24
From Arthur Schopenhauer: “Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.”
Quote of the day 01/30/24
From Fyodor Dostoevsky: “Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.”
Quote of the day 01/20/24
From John Locke: “The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”