One may explain water,
But the mouth will not get wet
Takuan Sōhō, 1573 – 1645 Zen Buddhist from the Rinzai school
Tag: Awareness
Content where we are
We all want to be famous people,
and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.
Jiddu Krisnamurti
photo jonathan billinger
Wonder and astonishment
Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.
Let me keep company always with those who say “Look!”
and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.
Mary Oliver
photo s04av
An Easter Sunday Quote
My eyes already touch the sunny hill
going far ahead of the road I have begun
So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp
It has its inner light even from a distance
and changes us even if we do not reach it
into something else, which hardly sensing it, we already are.
Rainer Maria Rilke
photo: oregon department of transportation
In the small bits and pieces
If you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted with pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. It’s that simple. What you see is what you get
Annie Dilliard
photo marilia melhado
Make some time today for silence
Stop talking, Stop thinking
And there is nothing that you will not understand
Seng-Ts’an, Third Chinese Patriarch
photo donald bain
