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• Let a good man do good deeds with the same zeal that the evil man does bad ones.
• When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
- Sydney Smith
• If you have one eye on yesterday and one eye on tomorrow, you’re going to be cockeyed today.
• Mind over matter is good news only if your mind is sound.
• The mind's highest good is the knowledge of God, and the mind's highest virtue is to know God.
- Spinoza, "Ethics"
• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
- Baruch Spinoza
• Your search among books, word upon word, may lead you to the depths of knowledge, but it is not the way to receive the reflection of your true self.
When you have thrown off your ideas as to mind and body, the original truth will fully appear. Zen is simply the expression of truth; therefore longing and striving are not the true attitudes of Zen.
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-Dogen,