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Perhaps most radically of all, seeing and accepting our limited powers over our time can prompt us to question the very idea that time is something you use in the first place. There is an alternative: the unfashionable but powerful notion of letting time use you, approaching life not as an opportunity to implement your predetermined plans for success but as a matter of responding to the needs of your place and your moment in history.
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
If you can think for yourself while being open-minded in a clearheaded way to find out what is best for you to do, and if you can summon up the courage to do it, you will make the most of your life.
Suzuki would sometimes use the terms student and disciple in his lectures. A student asked Suzuki if he was considered a disciple. Suzuki answered, “There are those who are practicing for themselves and those who are practicing for others. Those who are practicing for others are my disciples.”
Zen Is Right Now
Shunryu Suzuki and David Chadwick
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