From R.H. Blyth: “What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.”
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Quote of the day 02/07/25
From Unmon: “If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit; but whatever you do, don’t wabble.”
Quote of the day 02/02/25
From Emerson: “Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”
Quote of the day 02/01/25
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.”
Quote of the day 01/28/25
From Unmon: “Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might.”
Quote of the day 01/24/25
From Marcus Aurelius: “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
Quote of the day 01/22/25
From R.H. Blyth: “A haiku is not a poem, it is not literature; it is a hand beckoning, a door half-opened, a mirror wiped clean. It is a way of returning to nature, to our moon nature, our cherry blossom nature, our falling leaf nature, in short, to our Buddha nature.”
Quote of the day 01/20/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.”
Quote of the day 01/19/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them—these sticks, stones, feathers, shells—there is no Deity.”
Quote of the day 01/17/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.”
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