The dignity is in the worker, not in the job.
A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.
Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever
I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]
Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.
Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.