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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Quote of the day 03/19/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Reason grips life with a stranglehold, but life says, ‘To win, is to lose,’ and as in Judo, uses the power of the enemy to escape from it.”
Quote of the day 03/18/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Paradoxes are the bright banners of the liberty of the mind. They proclaim that the mind is free to bestow or withhold values.”
Quote of the day 03/17/25
From Sodu: In my hut this spring There is nothing- There is everything.
Quote of the day 03/16/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Sometimes the truth slides so gently into our minds that we are hardly aware of it.”
Quote of the day 03/15/25
From R.H. Blyth: “The paradox is itself an example of what it teaches. The meaning escapes the words. Very well then, instead of further and further explanations, floundering farther and farther from Reality, let us scorn truth, turn our backs on logic, defy consistency, – and behold, the intangible is grasped, the unsayable is said.”
Quote of the day 03/14/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Pater says, ‘All art aspires towards the condition of music.’ Action does the same, and when it reaches it, it is the activity of Zen.”
Quote of the day 03/13/25
From R.H. Blyth: “A paradox is not a kind of pun, to be resolved by explaining the double meaning of the word. It does not spring from a desire to mystify the hearers or oneself. It arises from the inability of language to say two things at once “
Quote of the day 03/12/25
From R.H. Blyth: “We cannot dare, then, to follow our instincts unless we have first entered into the state of death of all the other instincts. Then we can follow our Instincts. We can be like flowing water, like the changing moon.”
Quote of the day 03/11/25
From R.H. Blyth: “Paradoxes are the bright banners of the liberty of the mind. They proclaim that the mind is free to bestow or withhold values.”
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