{"author":"Steve Hagen","author_id":"Steve+Hagen","total_quotes":32,"quotes":[{"text":"[A] book is not merely a book, it is the sun as well.","author":"Steve Hagen","tags":["zen","zen-buddhism"],"id":43279,"author_id":"Steve+Hagen"},{"text":"How can a hard and fast view of a world that is never hard and fast possibly be accurate?","author":"Steve Hagen","tags":["zen","zen-buddhism"],"id":66144,"author_id":"Steve+Hagen"},{"text":"The Buddha encouraged people to 'know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them.'The message is always to examine and see for yourself. When you see for yourself what is true-and that's really the only way that you can genuinely know anything-then embrace it. Until then, just suspend judgment and criticism.","author":"Steve Hagen","tags":["buddhism","inspirational"],"id":72679,"author_id":"Steve+Hagen"},{"text":"This will never come again.","author":"Steve Hagen","tags":["buddhism","buddhism-is-not-what-you-think","steve-hagen","zen"],"id":90837,"author_id":"Steve+Hagen"},{"text":"To forget the self is to remember that we don't exist alone, but in relation to other people, to other creatures, to the planet, and to the universe.","author":"Steve Hagen","tags":["zen","zen-buddhism"],"id":91134,"author_id":"Steve+Hagen"},{"text":"What makes human life--which is inseparable from this moment--so precious is its fleeting nature. And not that it doesn't last but that it never returns again.","author":"Steve Hagen","tags":["buddhism","buddhism-is-not-what-you-think","steve-hagen","zen"],"id":113752,"author_id":"Steve+Hagen"},{"text":"Belief is at best an educated, informed conjecture about Reality.","author":"Steve Hagen","tags":["zen","zen-buddhism"],"id":122914,"author_id":"Steve+Hagen"},{"text":"As we live out of such a mind, we become generous, with no sense of tolerance. We become patient, with no sense of putting up with anything. We become compassionate, with no sense of separation. And we become wise, with no sense of having to straighten anyone out.","author":"Steve Hagen","tags":["buddhism","buddhism-is-not-what-you-think","steve-hagen","zen"],"id":122933,"author_id":"Steve+Hagen"},{"text":"We imagine that things come into existence, endure for a while, and then pass out of existence.","author":"Steve Hagen","tags":["zen","zen-buddhism"],"id":125178,"author_id":"Steve+Hagen"},{"text":"[E]ven in getting the wonderful things we long for, we tend to live in want of something more[.].","author":"Steve Hagen","tags":["zen","zen-buddhism"],"id":134242,"author_id":"Steve+Hagen"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":32,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}