"The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time."
You are the Truth
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Time
What will you do?
"This heaven will pass away, and the one above it will pass away. The dead are not alive, and the living will not die. In the days when you consumed what is dead, you made it what is alive. When you come to dwell in the light, what will you do? On the day when you...
Time Flows Away
"Time flows away like the water in the river."
You Must Find Time for Reading
"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."
Always With You
"Yes I am with you always, until the very end of time."
Meditation as Medicine
"Meditation is a kind of medicine - its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation; then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Walking is Zen, sitting is Zen. Then what will be the...
The Heart Knows
"The heart knows nothing of the past, nothing of the future; it knows only of the present. The heart has no time concept."
The Thinker
"Philosophers are never happy here. Now is not their time, and here is not their space. They live there, they live somewhere else."
Sudden Enlightenment
"Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen in a single, split second."
Knowledge
"Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for."