A lake carries you into the recesses of feeling otherwise impenetrable.
William Wordsworth
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I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity.
- Pico Iyer
Even in Kyoto / Hearing the cuckoo’s cry / I long for Kyoto
Matsuo Basho
Autumn……the year’s last, loveliest smile.
William Cullen Bryant
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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
Matsuo Basho
Harvest moon: around the pond I wander and the night is gone.
Matsuo Basho
When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen - pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by wind - then anything may serve as a medium for realization.
Matsuo Basho
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.
Loren Eiseley
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When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
Matsuo Basho
As I eat a persimmon / The bell starts ringing / At Horyuji Temple
Masaoka Shiki
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Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Matsuo Basho
Pare down to the essence, but don’t remove the poetry.
Leonard Koren
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
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Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.
Lauren Destefano
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From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree. And from the bamboo, of the bamboo.
Matsuo Basho
To be a geisha, you have to have an iron-clad layer around you, around your physical body and your heart.
Michelle Yeoh
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
- E.B. White
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Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.
- Lou Dorfsman
“Wabi-Sabi nurtures all that is authentic by acknowledging three simple realities: nothing lasts, nothing is finished, and nothing is perfect.”
- Richard Powell
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…”in a still life, there is no end to our looking…….we look in and in, to the world of things, in their ambiance of cool or warm light, in and in, as long as we can stand to look, as long as we take pleasure in looking.”
- Mark Doty
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…..…I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
- Elliott Erwitt
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
- HP Lovecraft
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The sea is emotion incarnate. It loves, hates, and weeps. It defies all attempts to capture it with words, and rejects all shackles. No matter what you say about it, there is always that which you can’t.
- Christopher Paolini, Eragon
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Patience is waiting for the ice to melt, instead of breaking it.
- Munia Khan
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All life is bound to a simple truth...that time goes on, that in each person's life begins a tale, a tale that will either end in memory or in legend.
- MJ Chrisman
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
- George Bernard Shaw
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