Quotes
Quotes about Wonder
O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful, and yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping!
Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud Without our special wonder?
There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.
To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasyâ and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.
The tighter you squeeze, the less you have. The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say We did it ourselves. The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other. â¢Ma-Tsu You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed. â¢Mumon Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung. â¢Zen Saying No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself. â¢Tilopa When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back. â¢Ying-An There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things. â¢Yuan-Wu The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. â¢Robert M. Pirsig Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark. â¢Zen Proverb Sit quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.
