From the Hekiganrobu: “To meet with ill fortune is to meet with good fortune. To meet with submission is to meet with an enemy.”
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Quote of the day 04/06/25
From the Rokusodankyo: “At every moment, in every place, if we are free from foolish desires and act wisely, we have Wisdom (Paradise). One foolish thought, and Paradise is lost; one wise thought and salvation is again ours.”
Quote of the day 04/05/25
From Francis Bacon: “No pleasure is comparable to the standing on the vantage ground of truth.”
Quote of the day 04/04/25
From William Wordsworth: “Let nature be your teacher.”
Quote of the day 04/03/25
From R.H. Blyth: “We are to ask fervently, to seek passionately, to knock madly – but it must be for nothing. When our self is all asked, sought, knocked away, everything is given, found, opened.”
Quote of the day 04/02/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…poetry, like religion, must be ascetic, must have the element of poverty in it.”
Quote of the day 04/01/25
From Lewis Carrol: “‘Tut, tut, child!’ said the Duchess. ‘Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.’”
Quote of the day 03/31/25
From William Wordsworth: “The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless unremembered acts of kindness and love.”
Quote of the day 03/30/25
From Basho: “Ah, hanging bridge! Ivy-ropes Entwine existence!”
Quote of the day 03/29/25
From Wordsworth: “To her fair works did Nature link The human soul that through me ran,”
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