Zen Every Day ◯"Most people do not like criticism. But they should. They should say thank you."
– Taisen Deshimaru
"You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair."
– Taisen Deshimaru
"Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making a synthesis of them, achieving balance."
– Taisen Deshimaru
"We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun."
– Taisen Deshimaru
"What I am trying to say is that the person who could treat you good and really love you could already be in your life, but you could have been blinded by the things you want in a man so you overlooked the person that you were really looking for."
– Taisen Deshimaru
"If you are not happy here and now, you never will be."
– Taisen Deshimaru
"You cannot separate any part from the whole: interdependence rules the cosmic order."
– Taisen Deshimaru
"Everything in the universe is connected. Everything is osmosis. You cannot separate any part from the whole interdependence rules the cosmic order."
– Taisen Deshimaru
"Descartes said, 'I think, therefore I am.' I say, 'I do not think, that is why I exist.'"
– Taisen Deshimaru