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No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.

Yuanwu Keqin

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Keqin, Yuanwu. 碧巖錄 [The Blue Cliff Record]. c. 1125.

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Of all the calamities, all the sufferings, all the terrors of this world, the only principle is the feeling or love of the self: it must be renounced.

Shantideva

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Shantideva. बोधिसत्त्वाचर्यावतार [Bodhicaryavatara]. c. 700, ch. 8.

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Shantideva. The Bodhicaryavatara, translated by Kat Crosby and Andrew Skilton. Oxford University Press, 2008, ch. 8.

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The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.

Yoshida Kenko

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Yoshida Kenko. Tsurezuregusa [Essays in Idleness]. c. 1332, ch. 13.

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Yoshida Kenko. Essays in Idleness: The Tsurezuregusa of Kenko, translated by Donald Keene. Columbia University Press, 1998, ch. 13.

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People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something-always, in a word, seeking.

Bodhidharma

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Bodhidharma. The Zen Teaching of Bodhidarma. c. 550.

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Bodhidharma. The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma, translated by Red Pine. North Point Press, 1989.

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