Zeal
- Zeal without humanity is like a ship without a rudder, liable to be stranded at any moment.
-- Owen Felltham
- Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
-- Hosea Ballou
- Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly in fools.
-- Ancient Proverb
- Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.
-- John Newton
- To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
-- William Penn
- Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
-- Quesnel
- The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning, but without understanding.
-- Louis D. Brandeis
- Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.
-- Charles Buxton
- There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
-- Joseph Addison
Zen
- Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
-- Alan Watts
- Spirited, restive flea, become a Buddha by my hand!
-- Issa
- No thought, no reflection, no analysis, no cultivation, no intention; let it settle itself.
-- Tilopa
- When you pass through, no one can pin you down, no one can call you back.
-- Ying-An
- You cannot describe it or draw it. You cannot praise it enough or perceive it. No place can be found in which to put the Original Face; it will not disappear even when the universe is destroyed.
-- Mumon
- In studying the way, realizing it is hard; once you have realized it, preserving it is hard. When you can preserve it, putting it into practice is hard.
-- Zen Saying
- The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing.
-- Seng-Ts'an
- One day a student asked Taiga, "What is the most difficult part of painting?" Taiga answered, "The part of the paper where nothing is painted is the most difficult."
-- Painting Zen
- Let go over a cliff, die completely, and then come back to life -- after that you cannot be deceived.
-- Zen Saying
- An American seeker: "If you follow any way, you will never get there; and if you do not follow any way, you will never get there. So one faces a dilemma."
- Hisamatsu: "Let that dilemma be your way."
-- Contemporary Mondo
- The mind that does not understand is the Buddha. There is no other.
-- Ma-Tsu
- There are no mundane things outside of Buddhism, and there is no Buddhism outside of mundane things.
-- Yuan-Wu
- Learning Zen is a phenomenon of gold and dung. Before you understand it, it's like gold; after you understand it, it's like dung.
-- Zen Saying
Zest
- Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
-- Christian Dior
- Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
- Forbid a man to think for himself or to act for himself and you may add the joy of piracy and the zest of smuggling to his life.
-- Elbert Hubbard
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