Learning

• "A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.'" ~Douglas Adams

• "A samurai once asked Zen Master Hakuin where he would go after he died. Hakuin answered 'How am I supposed to know?'

'How do you know? You're a Zen master!' exclaimed the samurai.

'Yes, but not a dead one,' Hakuin answered." ~Zen mondo

• "At the moment you are most in awe of all there is about life that you don't understand, you are closer to understanding it than at any other time." ~Jane Wagner

• "Enlightenment is intimacy with all things." ~Jack Kornfield

• "First, master your instrument. Then forget all that #*$&%& and play!" ~Charlie Parker

• "I am still learning." ~Michelangelo's motto

• "If an angel were to tell us something of his philosophies, I do believe some of his propositions would sound like 2 x 2 = 13." ~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

• "If you don't crack the shell, you can't eat the nut." ~Persian Proverb

• "It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper understanding." ~Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)

• "It is wisdom that is seeking for wisdom." ~Shunryu Suzuki

• "It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play." ~Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993)

• "Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." ~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)

• "The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life." ~Leo Tolstoy

• "The secret waits for eyes unclouded by longing." ~Tao Te Ching

• "The ten thousand questions are one question. If you cut through the one question, then the ten thousand questions disappear." ~Zen saying

• "The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it." ~Bayazid Bistami

• "To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand." ~José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)

• "When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge" ~Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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