"He who confronts the paradoxical exposes himself to reality." - Friedrich Durrenmatt

"Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each." - Henry David Thoreau

"When a person is confused, he sees east as west. When he is enlightened, west itself is east." - Ta-Hui

"If you want your children to have a peaceful life, let them suffer a little hunger and a little coldness." - Chinese Proverb

"Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish." - Hermann Hesse

"Nothing is more real than nothing." - Samuel Beckett

"My time is today." - George Gershwin

"The truly religious man does not embrace a religion; and he who embraces one has no religion." - Kahill Gibran

"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving." - Albert Einstein

"To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear." - Buddha

"I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn." - Albert Einstein

"When an ordinary man attains knowledge, he is a sage; when a sage attains understanding, he is an ordinary man." - Zen Saying

"The final mystery is oneself." - Oscar Wilde

"To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous." - Chinese Proverb

"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious." - Albert Einstein (mutual sentiments of Fred Fornicola)

"I don't like work-no man does-but I like what is in work-the chance to find yourself." - Joseph Conrad

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." - Albert Einstein

"Without leaving my house I know the whole universe." - Lao-Tsu

"Enlightenment is: do what you want eat what there is." - Jack Kerouac

"The fault finder will find faults even in paradise." - Henry David Thoreau

"I yam what I yam, and that's all that I yam." - Popeye

"Do not follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought." - Basho

"Dare to be naive." - R. Buckminster Fuller

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - Albert Einstein

"He did each single thing as if he did nothing else." - Charles Dickens

"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious." - George Nernard Shaw

"People only see what they are prepared to see." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom." - Albert Einstein

"If we don't take care of our body, where will we live?"

"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." - Albert Eistein

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished." - Lao-Tsu

"The wise reject what they think, not what they see." - Huang-Po

"Just to be alive is enough." - Shunryu Suzuki

"If there is to be any peace, it will come through being, not having." - Henry Miller

"Do not follow the idea of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things." - Dogen

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly." -
Buddha

"Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity." John F. Kennedy

"Age is a factor, not an excuse." - Fred Fornicola

"More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind." - Eric Butterworth

"To enjoy the world without judgment is what a realized life is like." - Charlotte Joko Beck

"No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it." - Albert Einstein

"Each moment presents what happens." - John Cage

"I categorize myself as uncategorical" - Fred Fornicola

"Hate no one, only their actions to which caused your disdain." - Fred Fornicola

1. Get enough food to eat, and eat it.
2. Find a place to sleep where it is quite, sleep there.
3. Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself, and listen to it.
4.
- Richard Brautigan

"It's not the answer that enlightens, but the question." - Eugebe Ionesco

"As soon as you try to chase and grab Zen, you've already stumbled past it." - Yuan-Wu

"We are allserving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self." - Cyril Connolly

"Arouse the mind without resting it on anything." - Diamond Sutra

"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." - Mark Twain

“He who has a "why" to live can bear almost any "how".” - Friedrich Nietzsche

"The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught." - Vauvenargues

"If you want to be happy, be." - Leo Tolstoy

"Do not consciously seek enlightenment." - Muso Kokushi

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." - Ludwig Borne

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live." - Lin Yu-T'Ang

"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth." - Ludwig Borne

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein

"Think with the whole body." - Taisen Deshimaru

"No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same." - Viktor E. Frankl

"I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon the dewdrop." - Kahlil Gibran

"Self is realized through selflessness." - Lao-Tsu

"I'm a man of vision, but it's not always 20/20" - Fred Fornicola

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." - Albert Einstein

"Talking about Zen all the time is like looking for fish tracks in a dry riverbed." - Wu-Tzu

"Think enough and you won't know anything." - Kenneth Patchen

"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly." Buddha