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As soon as you see something, you already start to intellectualize it. As soon as you intellectualize something, it is no longer what you saw.

Shunryu Suzuki-roshi : Japanese Buddhist scholar & Zen master, founder of the San Francisco Zen Center
Shunryu Suzuki-roshi (1905 - 1971)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunryu_Suzuki#Quotations
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When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown.

D.T. Suzuki (1870 - 1966)
Source: Zen and Japanese culture. Chapter on Haiku. p. 254
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