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Shunryu Suzuki Quotes: You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.
         

You are perfect as you are and there is always room for improvement.


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Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.



When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.

When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.



Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.



Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.

Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else.



If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything

If you can just appreciate each thing, one by one, then you will have pure gratitude. Even though you observe just one flower, that one flower includes everything



The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.



Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.

Wherever you go you will find your teacher, as long as you have the eyes to see and the ears to hear.



As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.



It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.



When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'

When my master and I were walking in the rain, he would say, 'Do not walk so fast, the rain is everywhere.'





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See me just as I see you.

See me just as I see you.



Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpler place.

Just always be honest about your feelings. If everyone did that then the world would be a much simpler place.



It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.

It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask.



'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the next one.

'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the next one.



I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.

I had a passion for cooking, and I was a very bad student.



Through the miracles of modern medicine George Burns still chases pretty girls, and through the miracle of modern psychiatry he intends to find out why!

Through the miracles of modern medicine George Burns still chases pretty girls, and through the miracle of modern psychiatry he intends to find out why!



You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.

You cannot live in Los Angeles for any period of time without eventually trying to write a screenplay. It's like a flu bug that you catch ... Even the plumber has a screenplay in his truck.



In the sea you've got to be constantly sort of alert. It's worse in the sea [than anywhere else in the animal kingdom]. In the sea you've got an enemy behind every rock.

In the sea you've got to be constantly sort of alert. It's worse in the sea [than anywhere else in the animal kingdom]. In the sea you've got an enemy behind every rock.



Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.

Most, if not all, problems brought to therapists are issues of love. It makes sense that the cure is also love.



As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.

As new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.




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