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Without Accepting The Fact That Everything Changes, We Cannot Find Perfect Composure.
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Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find
perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is
difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth
of transience, we suffer.
-- Shunryu Suzuki
Related:
God grant us the serenity to accept the things we cannot change, courage to change the things we can, and wisdom to know the difference.
The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used--we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immmorality.
-- Linus Pauling, _No More War_ (1958) US scientist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1954...
As long as we have some definite idea about or some hope in the future, we cannot really be serious with the moment that exists right now.
-- Suzuki Roshi...
Never judge a man without putting yourself in his place.
This old proverb makes all judgement impossible, for we judge someone only because, in fact, we cannot put ourselves in his place....
We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it. -- Yate
It is easy to welcome innovation and accept new ideas.
What most people find difficult, however, is accepting the way these new ideas are put into practice....
Gibble, Gobble, we ACCEPT YOU --- -- Zippy the Pinhead