39 quotes found
“Live. For Now. For the time being.”
“True freedom comes from being unknown.”
“For the time beingWords scatterAre they fallen leaves?”
“How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father?”
“How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal farther?”
“Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.”
“In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.”
“Do all kids have to worry about their parents mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after the kids, but a lot of times its the other way ar...”
“She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate herself in human time and history. She missed peop...”
“There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are”
“In your diary, you quoted old Jiko saying something about not-knowing, how not-knowing is the most intimate way, or did I just dream that?Anyway, I've been thinking about this a lot, and I think ma...”
“An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.”
“As I bathe myselfI pray with all beingsthat we can purify body and mindand clean ourselves inside and out.”
“To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid, singular self would dissolve and you could forget about it. What a relief. You could just hang o...”
“By changing our history and our memory, they try to erase all our shame.”
“We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century", Oliver said. "Who isn't?”
“I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.”
“Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.”
“Otaku () is also a formal way of saying "you". means "house", and with the honorific , it literally means "your honorable house", implying that you are less of a person and more of a place, fixed ...”
“Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an ...”
“The only time they ever throw anything away is when it's really and truly broken, and then they make a big deal about it. They save up all their bent pins and broken sewing needles and once a year ...”
“A name could be either a ghost or a portent depending on which side of time you were standing. The name Whaletown had become a mere specter of the past, a crepuscular Pacific shimmer, but the name ...”
