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Suzuki Roshi once described the life of a Zen master as “one continuous mistake ” I’ve often wondered what that means   Gaylon Ferguson
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Suzuki Roshi once described the life of a Zen master as “one continuous mistake ” I’ve often wondered what that means Gaylon Ferguson

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  • The simple truth is we are simply an expression of the energy of the sun  We are the glorious manifestation of the power of the universe  We are the fingertips of the force that drives the stars, so do your job and FEEL  Tanya Tagaq
  • The less there is  to look at, the more important it is that we look at it closely  and carefully   Small differences make all the difference   Kirk Varnedoe
  • The lack of a camera was going to make this awkward, at least for me  Martha Wells
  • The holy grail is to spend less time making the picture than it takes people to look at it  Banksy
  • The foxes die   I mourn them, but I understand that there is danger in mourning for those who would not mourn for you in return    Tanya Tagaq
  • The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful  And very shortly you discover that there is no reason  John Cage
  • The colonel sat back when he was finished and was extremely pleased with himself for the prompt action he had just taken to meet this sinister crisis   Joseph Heller
  • The air is so clean you can smell the difference between smooth rock and jagged  You can smell water running over shale  Tanya Tagaq
  • Suzuki Roshi once described the life of a Zen master as “one continuous mistake ” I’ve often wondered what that means   Gaylon Ferguson
  • Sometimes you need  to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room  in order to hear your own voice  and not let it drown in the noise of others   Charlotte Eriksson
  • Sometimes it's not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don't mean  Bob Dylan
  • Some of us are restrained by fear of what could happen to us if we resist  In our naïveté, we are less fearful of what could happen to us – or is already happening to us – if we don’t resist  Ibram X Kendi
  • Some of us are drawn to the mountains the way the moon draws the tide  Both the great forests and the mountains live in my bones  Joan Halifax
  • So, in retrospect, I could see that hadn’t gone so well

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