Hurtigruten Day 9

"Yesterday we sailed back through the Trollfjord area---really unbelievably beautiful. And then in the evening we were on the Lofoten Islands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lofoten, starting in Svolvaer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svolvaer and travelling through to Stramsund . As has been said, the light play on the island is enchanting, especially with the midnight sun, and that's why so many artists have lived and been creative there. This morning we passed south of the Arctic Circle amd so the sun will now have a short rest during the night."

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"When you act wholeheartedly, your activity becomes very clear, calm, flexible, and magnanimous. It is boundless, and simultaneously it is you. So studying the boundlessness of activity is studying the self. This is called intimacy."

-Katagiri, p. 142

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"When you have a strong, stable confidence every day, it is called spiritual life."

-Katagiri, p, 146

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"You must be fresh every single moment."

-Katagiri, p. 153

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"So you have to just walk, step-by-step. If you do this, very naturally you become humble and majestic. From generation to generation, buddhas and ancestors have walked like this."

-Katagiri, p. 153-

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"Buddhist practice is to constantly create beauty. Beauty is the functioning of wisdom."

-Katagiri, p. 158

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"In order to make the surface of your life mature, you have to make the depth of your life mature."

-Katagiri, p. 162

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"Instead of expecting to get something from our effort, we give quality to our effort."

-Katagirir, p. 171-