227 Quotes by Ruth Ozeki


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    ...but by spring, she had again yielded to the tug and tide of his mind, allowing its currents to carry her back across the continent and wash them up on the remote shores of his evergreen island..

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    Do not think that time simply flies away. Do not understand “flying” as the only function of time. If time simply flew away, a separation would exist between you and time. So if you understand time as only passing, then you do not understand the time being. To grasp this truly, every being that exists in the entire world is linked together as moments in time, and at the same time they exist as individual moments of time. Because all moments are the time being, they are your time being.

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    And if you decide not to read anymore, hey, no problem, because you're not the one I was waiting for anyway. But if you decide to read on, then guess what? You're my kind of time being and together we'll make magic!

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    He's got this thing about Canada. He says it's like America only with health care and no guns, and you can live up to your potential there and not have to worry about what society thinks or about getting sick or getting shot.

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    Именно в этой главе он хвалит молодых монахов за упорство на пути к пробуждению и объясняет гранулярную природу времени: 6 400 099 980 моментов составляют один день. Цель его рассуждений — показать, что каждый из этих моментов дает возможность для волеизъявления. Даже щелчок пальцами, говорит он, предоставляет нам шестьдесят шесть возможностей для пробуждения и выбора действий, которые создадут нам благоприятную карму и возможность изменить жизнь.

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    On the far side stretched the open Pacific and beyond, but the crow could not fly high enough to see its way home.

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    She'd been betwitched. She'd pricked her finger and had fallen into a deep, comalike sleep.

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