Philosophy Quote by Shunryu Suzuki — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few”

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

“A student, filled with emotion and crying, implored, "Why is there so much suffering?”

“The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason”

“You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.”

“I am my world.”

“Hope is not naive—it is disciplined courage.”

“He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.”

“If you ask me to tell you anything about the nature of what lies beyond the phaneron… my answer is “How should I know?”… I am not dismayed by ultimate mysteries… I can no more grasp what is behind such questions as my cat can understand what is behind the clatter I make while I type this paragraph.”