“Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion is there to guide you. Seek detachment and become the producer of your life.”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“It's harder to make the glass than break the glass.”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing yourself is Enlightenment. - Lao-Tzu”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“The first person you have to resurrect is yourself”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“Life comes when you have knowledge, wisdom, and understanding, when you can see for real, touch, and feel for real, know for real. Then you are truly living.”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“Decay is inevitable, but death is not.”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“Truth out of season bears no fruit" To me, that means two things. One: There's a time and place for every kind of knowledge to flourish. Two: The personal characteristics of great messengers are usually irrelevant.”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“In a way, when TV went digital, we lost a foothold in reality. Now, we'll never truly know if what we're watching is real or has been altered and transmitted to us. Digital culture brought a step away from truth.”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“So love, like wisdom, dissolves you and then resolves you. It breaks down your ego and puts you back together again properly. When”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
“I don’t think a computer can process information to even 10 percent of what the human brain does. The brain’s got mad shit going on in your body right now.”
― The RZA, quote from The Tao of Wu
The RZA
Born place: in Brooklyn, New York, The United States
Born date July 5, 1969
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“ESTRAGON: I can't go on like this.
VLADIMIR: That's what you think.”
― Samuel Beckett, quote from Waiting for Godot
“I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, quote from Everything Is Illuminated
“The whites, you see, are tempted by their egos and have no means to resist. We Japanese, on the other hand, know our egos are nothing. We bend our egos, all of the time, and that is where we differ. That is the fundamental difference, Hatsue. We bend our heads, we bow and are silent, because we understand that by ourselves, alone, we are nothing at all, dust in a strong wind, while the hakujin believes his aloneness is everything, his separateness is the foundation of his existence. He seeks and grasps, seeks and grasps for his separateness, while we seek union with the Greater Life—you must see that these are distinct paths we are traveling, Hatsue, the hakujin and we Japanese.”
― David Guterson, quote from Snow Falling on Cedars
“Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again." "Please, Aslan", said Lucy,"what do you call soon?"
"I call all times soon" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away.”
― C.S. Lewis, quote from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
“for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge”
― Virginia Woolf, quote from To the Lighthouse
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