Everyone lets the present moment slip by, then looks for it as though he thought it was somewhere else. No one seems to have noticed this fact. But grasping this firmly, one must pile experience upon experience. And once one has come to this understanding he will be a different person from that point on, though he may not always bare it in mind. When one understands this settling into single-mindedness well, his affairs will thin out.
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- As everything in this world is but a sham, Death is the only sincerity. β¨ Hagakure. Book by Yamamoto Tsunetomo and Nabeshima Mitsushige, circa 1716.
- As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life. β¨ Tsunetomo Yamamoto, Justin F. Stone, Minoru Tanaka (2001). Bushido: The Way of the Samurai, β¦ βΆ
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