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.”
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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 03/30/25
From Basho: “Ah, hanging bridge! Ivy-ropes Entwine existence!”
Quote of the day 03/27/25
From R.H. Blyth: “To the pure, all things are pure. To the divine, all things are divine.”
Quote of the day 03/25/25
From R.H. Blyth: On Don Quixote: “The object of a Knight Errant … is not to judge men, not to think of their goodness or badness, but only of their misfortunes … this applies to all men and women equally; old and young, rich and poor, good and bad … His attitude to other peopleContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/25/25”
Quote of the day 03/24/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Truth is expressible only in the form of a paradox. What is not paradoxical, is not true; is not living, inexpressible truth. Denial is the only way to answer, blasphemy the only praise.”
Quote of the day 03/23/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…we have, not, ‘Though it changes, it is the same,’ which is intellectually understandable, but, ‘The more it changes, the more it is the same.’ This touch of life, of genius, of inspiration, of Zen, of something beyond logic and rationality, gives us a strange feeling of freedom and power.”
Quote of the day 03/22/25
From Kamo Chomei: “The moving water flows ceaselessly, yet the water is never the same.”
Quote of the day 03/21/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Zeno of Eleanor showed that things cannot move, a moving arrow is an illusion, Achilles can never overtake the tortoise. But here again life solves the problem by living. We come into existence and go out of it, things move, things overtake other things.”
Quote of the day 03/20/25
From R.H. Blyth: “…there is a danger that the paradox may be taken as overstepping the mark, as exaggeration for the sake of effect, in answer to the overweening claims of the reason. Such is not the case. To repeat, there is both a shadow and is not a shadow beneath the pine tree. TheContinue reading “Quote of the day 03/20/25”
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