Kukai quotes
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“You can measure the depth of a person's awakening by how they serve others”
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“The mantras, however, are mysterious and each word is profound in meaning. When they are transliterated into Chinese, the original meanings are modified and the long and short vowels are confused. In the end we can get roughly similar sounds but not precisely the same ones. Unless we use Sanskrit, it is hardly possible to differentiate the long and short sounds. The purpose of retaining the source materials, indeed, lies here.”
-- Kukai
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“Nothing that happens on the surface of the sea can alter the calm of its depths”
Source : Andrew Harvey (2010). “The Direct Path”, p.249, Random House
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“The voluntary captive The speechless the prisoner Which I hide in my very depths...”
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“My speaking is meant to shake you awake, not to tell you how to dream better.”
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“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”
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“You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.”
Source : A. S. A. Harrison (2013). “The Silent Wife: A Novel”, p.73, Penguin
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“Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest”
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