Maezumi Roshi

Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.

Silence is not always tact, but it is tact that is golden, not silence.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler and less trouble.

Nothing’s beautiful from every point of view.

We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

Method goes far to prevent trouble in business: for it makes the task easy, hinders confusion, saves abundance of time, and instructs those that have business depending, both what to do and what to hope.

Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.

It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans –which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.