Which is realistic? I don't know. You have to think more. We are naturally pretty romantic beings. So, perhaps we are too romantic and too emotional. That we don’t want to be so romantic and emotional and want to be more realistic is our desire, but we are romantic and emotional beings. That is very true. So, I don’t argue about whether we are romantic or realistic. But the purpose of religion is to solve this kind of problem.
—cuke.com/ig for links to the source of the photo. Excerpt from Shunryu Suzuki lecture 68-10-20 as found on shunryusuzuki.com, edited by PF. Go to instagram.com/cuke_archives for the Instagram version.