The fullness of joy is to behold God in all. — Julian of Norwich

Archive for August 11, 2007

Two Zen Sayings

I was corresponding with a person online about belief and disbelief, and I saw fit to quote my two favorite zen sayings. I read these years ago, and couldn’t cite the source if you held a gun to my head. So with my apologies to whomever said these first (or first wrote them down in English), here are my favorite windows into zenspace:

Three things are required for zen: great faith, great doubt, and great perseverance.

Quit trying. Quit trying not to try. Quit quitting.


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