This, a world seen no longer from the human point of view,
but inside the angel,
is perhaps my real task.
Rilke, in a Letter, 1915
Sunday Quote: Luminous
Tag: Joy
Joy
84,000 delusions
84,000 lights
84,000 joys abounding
Saichi Asahara, Jōdo Shinshū [True Pure Land Buddhism] poet, writer and sandal maker
In Buddhism it is said that there are 84,000 doors to Enlightenment
Sunday Quote: A light in the heart
No striving, no grasping at this or that, no entertaining any self-involved stories whatsoever.
Instead, attention pivots toward a light in the heart in which the ‘field of boundless emptiness’ is revealed.
All questions and doubts are put to rest.
Hongzhi Zhengjue, 1091–1157, Chinese Chan Buddhist monk
Sunday Quote: Before
Can you remember who you were,
before the world told you who you should be?
Charles Bukowski, 1920 – 1994, American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
Lift your eyes
How can we ever lose interest in life?
Spring has come again
And cherry trees bloom in the mountains.
Ryokan, 1758 – 1831, Zen monk, hermit and poet
Sunday Quote: listen
I tried to discover, in the sounds of forests and waves, words that others could not hear, and I opened up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.
[Je tâchais de découvrir, dans les bruits des forêts et des flots, des mots que les autres hommes n’entendaient point, et j’ouvrais l’oreille pour écouter la révélation de leur harmonie.]
Flaubert, November
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