From R.H. Blyth: “However long or short your life is, it is a complete one. Whether the wind comes from the heat of the sun or the coolness of the moon, it is the wind; to fill every moment of a life with living, that is to be like the lily, the plant and flowerContinue reading “Quote of the day 05/06/25”
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Quote of the day 05/05/25
From Hakuin: “We see all phenomena as eternal realities, yet as phenomena; whether we go or whether we return, for us there is no movement.”
Quote of the day 05/05/25
From Hakuin: “We see all phenomena as eternal realities, yet as phenomena; whether we go or whether we return, for us there is no movement.”
Quote of the day 05/04/25
From Walt Whitman: I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.
Quote of the day 05/02/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The meaning, the object of our life, is the state of being unborn, age-less, immortal, which is our real nature and the nature of all things.”
Quote of the day 05/01/25
From Confucius: “If a man sees Truth in the morning, he may die in the evening without regret.”
Quote of the day 04/17/25
From William Wordsworth: “To begin, begin.”
Quote of the day 04/16/25
From William Wordsworth: “With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.”
Quote of the day 04/07/25
From the Hekiganrobu: “To meet with ill fortune is to meet with good fortune. To meet with submission is to meet with an enemy.”
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.”