From R.H. Blyth: “In conclusion, let us say that Shakespeare had a religion, a religion which could ask and answer the question which Macduff asked, when his wife and children were all murdered at one fell swoop: ‘Did heaven look on, And would not take their part?’ What is the answer to the question? ItContinue reading “Quote of the day 06/10/25”
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Quote of the day 06/09/25
From R.H. Blyth: “It is only the simple but far-reaching fact that Goodness is on the side of goodness rather than badness, that is to say, the fact that evil in its own nature destroys itself, that makes Iago a failure.”
Quote of the day 06/08/25
From R.H. Blyth: “In both good and evil there is Goodness, if only men can forget their praising and blaming and see it as it flows, in its activity.”
Quote of the day 06/07/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The scales are weighted, though ever so lightly, on the side of goodness and truth. Were this not so, how could we say, ‘Follow nature,’ ‘Know thyself’? Zen would become simply a participation in the Universal Suicide.”
Quote of the day 04/21/25
From William Wordsworth: One impulse from a vernal woodMay teach you more of man,Of moral evil and of good,Than all the sages can.
Quote of the day 04/12/15
From R.H. Blyth: “Zen says, as in the Shinjinmei, all forms of dualism, right and wrong, good and bad, gain and loss – get rid of them all, forget them!”
Quote of the day 04/11/25
From R.H. Blyth: “What Zen wishes us to do is let go of the ordinary goodness of philanthropy and duty, and the badness of tyranny and cruelty, and live always in the Goodness, dissolved in it, sublimed in it.”
Quote of the day 02/05/25
From William Shakespeare: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
Quote of the day 02/04/25
From William Shakespeare: “There is some soul of goodness in things evil, would men observingly distill it out.”
Quote of the day 02/03/25
From Epictetus: “Two rules we should always have ready,-that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them.”
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