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  • The thought should have terrified me, but instead I felt a zen calm wash over me: Whatever was going to happen down on Chthonia, everything I'd risked had already been worth it.†  (source)
  • He accelerated with the gentle serenity of the Buddhist Zen master who knows nothing really needs to be done quickly, and his brakes whined like metal machine music, and I loved him.†  (source)
  • Twelve steps and a Zen garden, a towering wall, a gate, the city—escape.†  (source)
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  • I'm in my Zen mode, trying to make this whole thing a spiritual experience.†  (source)
  • "That's very Zenlike," I try again.†  (source)
  • Sounds pretty Zen.†  (source)
  • I helped create Zen Gnosticism before any of your parents were born.†  (source)
  • Not wondering about impossible things is how I've managed to be relatively Zen.†  (source)
  • That painting in the Zen style is really something, don't you think?†  (source)
  • Suddenly, one of them, an incredibly gaunt man with a long drooping mustache, runs in front of the camera and begins to shout: "a ma la ge zen ba dam gal nun ka aria su su na an da...."The sounds spread from him to his neighbors, spreading across the flight deck like a wave.†  (source)
  • A new, uncluttered, Zen-like life, in which I spend nothing.†  (source)
  • She drew back from everyone a bit, spending a lot of time next door with Boo where they drank tea, discussed Zen Buddhism, and read dream books together.†  (source)
  • The so-called Ancient Teachings — including those preserved by the Zensunni Wanderers from the first, second, and third Islamic movements; the Navachristianity of Chusuk, the Buddislamic Variants of the types dominant at Lankiveil and Sikun, the Blend Books of the Mahayana Lankavatara, the Zen Hekiganshu of III Delta Pavonis, the Tawrah and Talmudic Zabur surviving on Salusa Secundus, the pervasive Obeah Ritual, the Muadh Quran with its pure Ilm and Fiqh preserved among the pundi rice farmers of Caladan, the Hindu outcroppings found all through the universe in little pockets of insulated pyons, and finally, the Butlerian Jihad.†  (source)
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