Tag: wisdom

A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, “Why is there so much suffering?”Suzuki Roshi replied, “No reason....

Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own....

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy...

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular....

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children....

Music is … A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy...

But that was life: Nobody got a guided tour to their own theme park. You had to hop on the rides as they presented themselves, never knowing whether you would like the one you were in line for…or if the bastard...

Granny was an old-fashioned witch. She didn’t do good for people, she did right by them....

A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he’s finished....

Discipline allows magic. To be a writer is to be the very best of assassins. You do not sit down and write every day to force the Muse to show up. You get into the habit of writing every day so...