Albert Low quotes
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“Instead of suppressing conflicts, specific channels could be created to make this conflict explicit, and specific methods could be set up by which the conflict is resolved.”
-- Albert LowSource : Albert Low (1976). “Zen and creative management”, Anchor Books
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“The good news is that we are Buddha. The bad news is that all beings are Buddha. The sickness of being human is the sickness of wanting to be unique.”
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“A company is a multidimensional system capable of growth, expansion, and self-regulation. It is, therefore, not a thing but a set of interacting forces. Any theory of organization must be capable of reflecting a company's many facets, its dynamism, and its basic orderliness. When company organization is reviewed, or when reorganizing a company, it must be loked upon as a whole, as a total system.”
-- Albert LowSource : Albert Low (1976). “Zen and creative management”, Anchor Books
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“Life is a constant creation. It is a moment by moment, instant by instant creation. I don’t mean by this that it is a set of discrete creations, it is not like that. But nevertheless, this spontaneity is constantly arising. And it is within this that is our freedom.”
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“It is our very search, our lust for the miraculous and magical, that hides from us the truth that simply to be, simply to know I am, is already the miracle that we seek. Everything, as it is, is perfect, but you must stop seeing it as if in a mirror, as if in a dream.”
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“The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.”
-- Albert LowSource : Albert Low (1976). “Zen and creative management”, Anchor Books
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“It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it.”
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“if we look upon awaking as an end or a goal to be accomplished, we deny the truth of presence.”
-- Albert LowSource : Albert Low (1995). “The World: A Gateway : Commentaries on the Mumonkan”, Tuttle Pub
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“Whenever there is a conflict between human rights and property rights, human rights must prevail.”
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“Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.”
Source : Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books
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“Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?”
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“Always pass a plate of forgiveness before each verbal feast.”
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“Languages are true analytical methods.”
Source : "Elements of Chemistry". Book by Antoine Lavoisier, 1790.
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“There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.”
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“No religion, I'm just so explicit, I coexist in places you would never know existed.”
Source : Song: Bohemian Grove, Album: Control System, 2012
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“I try to make sure that the Buddhism is more or less implicit in the music rather than explicit”
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