From R.H. Blyth: “Man is born deaf, that is, not understanding the speech of others, so that he may follow his instincts and not be confused by words.”
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Quote of the day 02/08/25
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.”
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 02/06/25
From Chomei: “The triple world is but one Mind. Outside the Mind there is no other reality; Mind, Buddha, all Sentient Creatures, – these three are not different things.”
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 02/02/25
From Emerson: “Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.”
Quote of the day 01/31/25
From Keats: “A poet is the most unpoetical thing in existence-because he has no identity. The setting sun will always set me to rights, and if a sparrow comes before my window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel.”
Quote of the day 01/29/25
From M. Duthuit: “Draw bamboos for ten years, become a bamboo, then forget all about bamboos when you are drawing.”
Quote of the day 01/13/25
From Confucius: “The way is not far from man. If we take the way as something superhuman, this is not the real way.”
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