From R.H. Blyth: “Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.”
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Quote of the day 01/30/25
From William Blake: “The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man.”
Quote of the day 01/15/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.”
Quote of the day 01/02/25
From William Blake: “Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.”
Quote of the day 01/01/25
From William Blake: “Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.”
Quote of the day 12/31/24
From William Blake: “Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell’s despair.”
Quote of the day 12/30/24
From William Blake: “In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
Quote of the day 12/29/24
From William Blake: “The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity… and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.”
Quote of the day 12/28/24
From William Blake: “The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
Quote of the day 12/27/24
From William Blake: “I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
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