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Nan Shin
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“... we all hope for a — must I say the word — recipe, we all believe, however much we know we shouldn't, that maybe somebody's got that recipe and can show us how not to be sick, suffer and die.”
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“There is nothing inevitable. The actions of the past operate at every instant and so, at every instant, does freedom.”
Nan Shin, U.S. zen nun
(1935)
Born: Nancy Amphoux.