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Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
D.T. Suzuki
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Unless we die to ourselves, we can never be alive again.
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Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism... We cannot be sufficiently grateful to the author, first for the fact of his having brought Zen closer to Western understanding, and secondly for the manner in which he has achieved this task.
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Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
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When we start to feel anxious or depressed, instead of asking, What do I need to get to be happy? The question becomes, What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?
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Fundamentally the marksman aims at himself.
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