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Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
D. T. Suzuki
Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.
D. T. Suzuki
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness, into one of art, full of genuine inner creativity.
D. T. Suzuki
Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.
D. T. Suzuki
Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious.
D. T. Suzuki
The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality is the highest act of wisdom.
D. T. Suzuki
Unless we agree to suffer we cannot be free from suffering.
D. T. Suzuki
I am an artist at living - my work of art is my life.
D. T. Suzuki
The waters are in motion, but the moon retains its serenity.
D. T. Suzuki
To live - is that not enough?
D. T. Suzuki
Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.
D. T. Suzuki
The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow.
D. T. Suzuki
Implicity, there should be something mysterious in every day.
D. T. Suzuki
The truth of Zen is the truth of life, and life means to live, to move, to act, not merely to reflect.
D. T. Suzuki
Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
D. T. Suzuki
Zen in it's essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.
D. T. Suzuki
That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.
D. T. Suzuki
One has not understood until one has forgotten it.
D. T. Suzuki
We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life.
D. T. Suzuki
Let the intellect alone, it has its usefulness in its proper sphere, but let it not interfere with the flowing of the life-stream.
D. T. Suzuki