Soko Morinaga quotes
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“Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.”
-- Soko MorinagaSource : Soko Morinaga, Belenda Attaway Yamakawa (2002). “Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity”, p.149, Simon and Schuster
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“The truly still mind, with which you were born, is the mind that moves freely. Without ignoring anything, it reacts wholeheartedly to everything it encounters, to everything on which it reflects. And yet, for all that, it is the mind that is never seized by anything, but is always ready to react on the spot to whatever it encounters next. The mind that is still is the mind that never forfeits its freedom and is able to constantly keep rolling androlling and rolling.”
-- Soko MorinagaSource : Soko Morinaga, Belenda Attaway Yamakawa (2002). “Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity”, p.82, Simon and Schuster
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“From the first, in people and in things, there is no such thing as trash. These words point to the fundamental truth of Buddhism, a truth I could not as yet conceive in those days.”
-- Soko MorinagaSource : "Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity". Book by Soko Morinaga, p. 29, June 15, 2002.
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Source : "KISS's Ace Frehley Tells All (Or Some?) in Advance of Upcoming Memoir". Interview with Jaan Uhelszki, www.themortonreport.com. August 05, 2011.
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“The Way of Liberation is not a belief system; it is something to be put into practice.”
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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“I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.”
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“In moments of uncertainty...i mmerse yourself in the life you would be most proud to live.”
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“I'm trying to get some building work done at the moment, quite seriously. Be careful.”
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