“When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.”

Quoted in 'Enter the Heart of the Fire : A collection of Mystical Poems (1981) by Mary E. Giles and Kathryn Hohlwein

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself." by Shunryu Suzuki?

Shunryu Suzuki39

Japanese Buddhist missionary 1904–1971

Related quotes

“A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either.”

Ana Castillo (1953) novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer

Source: Peel My Love Like an Onion

“Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

“What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.”

Ken Robinson (1950) UK writer

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“If you see something different for yourself in the future, you have to do something different for yourself in the present.”

Steve Maraboli (1975)

Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 110

“When you follow your emotional guidance system with the awareness that your inner compass can be ‘faulty’ you will be able to question yourself in the spirit of curiosity and the desire to be totally aware… You will ask yourself WHY something feels good to do.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Burning autumn leaves,
I yearn to make the bonfire
Bigger and bigger.”

Richard Wright (1908–1960) African-American writer

Haiku: This Other World (1998)

Jodi Picoult book Nineteen Minutes

Source: Nineteen Minutes

“It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you.”

Claude Debussy (1862–1918) French composer

As quoted in The Cambridge Companion to Debussy (2003) by Simon Trezise, p. 120
Context: It is necessary to abandon yourself completely, and let the music do as it will with you. All people come to music to seek oblivion.

“Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.”

Roger Zelazny (1937–1995) American speculative fiction writer

Source: Power & Light

“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) American writer

"My Neighbor's Son"
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)

“When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Shunryu Suzuki39

Related quotes

Related topics