Master Quotes

Master Quote of the day

A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.

At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.

Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master.

If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.

To design is to communicate clearly by whatever means you can control or master.

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

The master mind is the mind that thinks what it wants to think, regardless of what circumstances, environment or associations may suggest.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'

I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

The art of being a slave is to rule one's master.

Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two.

No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

Control your vibrations and you are the master of your own harmony.

poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

No man is good enough to be another's master.

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

The Zen master walks in his garden, alone. There is no traffic there. There is no shopping there. There are only the flowers.

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation, and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

You may wonder which came first: the skill or the hard work. But that's a moot point. The Zen master cleans his own studio. So should you.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

Prove to the world that you are alive, let your words breathe life into the nostrils of the universe.

If thou art master to thyself, circumstances shall harm thee little.

Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours.

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

Persecutions are inevitable as a Christian. We are not greater than our Master, Jesus Christ, in whose Holy Spirit we gain strength to endure.

Then, are you master of us all? You didn't teach her that. Was she supposed to imbibe it from my quiet subservience?

When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.

If you are truly a servant of God, then you are to serve him as a master.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

And yet we knew, for a certainty, that when first emissaries of Earth went walking among the planets, Earth's other sons would be dreaming not about such expeditions but about a piece of bread.

Liberace was certainly master and commander of the ivories ~ he is the only pianist I can watch or listen to without suffering a case of 'Stagefright Sympathy Sickness'.

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been essentially mastered by Zen.

I'm a Zen Master. I'm an occult teacher. I teach people how to become that, how to be perfect.

In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things of the student because the student is in graduate school.

Naturally, the Zen Master Rama philosophy is to have a high state of awareness and material success.