Janwillem van de Wetering quotes

“Greed is a fat demon with a small mouth and whatever you feed it is never enough.”
-- Janwillem van de Wetering

Source : Janwillem Van De Wetering (2003). “Just a Corpse at Twilight”, p.118, Soho Press

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“What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it and slowly he ripens in this tranquility. For the inner process is beginning to unfold, stillness is extraordinarily important.”
-- Janwillem van de Wetering

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“To see what isn't true is easy. But to see what is true will take some doing.”
-- Janwillem van de Wetering

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“For me this book was a very practical explanation of one man's experience of Enlightened awareness in in the face of or in light of dogma-oriented wisdom.”
-- Janwillem van de Wetering

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“Not only has one to do one's best, one must, while doing one's best, remain detached from whatever one is trying to achieve.”
-- Janwillem van de Wetering

Source : Janwillem van de Wetering (2014). “The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery”, p.142, St. Martin's Griffin

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“To die should be the most interesting journey of all the journeys a person can take.”
-- Janwillem van de Wetering

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“I had been proud of my awareness, aware of my pride, and proud of that awareness again. It went on like this: How clever I am that I know I am so stupid, how stupid I am to think that I am clever, and how clever I am that I am aware of my stupidity, etc.”
-- Janwillem van de Wetering

Source : Janwillem van de Wetering (2014). “The Empty Mirror: Experiences in a Japanese Zen Monastery”, p.131, St. Martin's Griffin

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“But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

“Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.”

“Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.”

“I contemplated my greed for peace. And I did not seek tranquillity anymore.”

“The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.”

“The voice of experience keeps its mouth shut.”

“No one's mouth is big enough to utter the whole thing.”

“But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.”

Source : Adeline Yen Mah (1999). “Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter”, Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers

“In the very depths of Hell, do not demons love one another?”

“Demon or not, it didn't matter, suffering was everywhere he looked.”