To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant
Interpretation
Live fully and intensely, as if each moment could be your last.
This quote emphasizes the importance of fully immersing oneself in life, whether through Zen practices or martial arts. It suggests that by living with intensity and commitment, one can appreciate each moment deeply and embrace life with greater awareness and purpose, as if the present could be fleeting.
In practice
During a motivational speech about living life to the fullest.
All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion - all these various forces resolve into that Prana, and the vibration of the Prana ceases. In that state it remains until the beginning of the next cycle. Prana then begins to vibrate, and that vibration acts upon the Akasha, and all these forms are thrown out in regular succession.
Intellectual liberty is the air of the soul, the sunshine of the mind, and without it, the world is a prison, the universe is a dungeon.
The alienation of man thus appeared as the fundamental evil of capitalist society.
There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny.
Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.
An admiral without ships, a hand without fingers, in service of a king without a throne. Is this a knight who comes before us, or the answer to a child's riddle?
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