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'Nothing in the world is difficult,' said the Patriarch, 'it is only our own thoughts that make things seem so.'
Monkey: Folk Novel of China (1942)
A handful of one's country's soil is worth more than ten thousand pounds of foreign gold.
Monkey: Folk Novel of China (1942)
A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.
Monkey: Folk Novel of China (1942)
'If the Government gets hold of you they'll flog you to death; if the Buddhists get hold of you they'll starve you to death.'
Monkey: Folk Novel of China (1942)
Tripitaka stepped lightly ashore. He had discarded his earthly body; he was cleansed from the corruption of the senses, from the fleshly inheritance of those bygone years. His was now the transcendent wisdom that leads to the Further Shore, the mastery that knows no bounds.
Monkey: Folk Novel of China (1942)
'To hope for [immortality],' said the Patriarch, 'would be like trying to fish the moon out of the water.'
'There you go again!' said Monkey. 'What pray do you mean by fishing the moon out of the water?'
'When the moon is in the sky,' said the Patriarch, 'it is reflected in the water. It looks just like a real thing, but if you try to catch hold of it, you find it is only an illusion.'
Monkey: Folk Novel of China (1942)