"The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the
transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again."
~Anais Nin December 21, 1936 from Fire

"We don't have a language for the senses. Feelings are images, sensations are like musical sounds."
~Anais Nin


"Don't play what's there, play what's not there."
~Miles Davis

"For what is it to die, But to stand in the sun and melt into the wind?"
~Kahlil Gibran

"The land and the water make numbers joined, a poem written with flesh and stronger than steel or granite. Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown." ~Henry Miller

"All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood."
~Rainer Maria Rilke

"Let your religion be less of a theory
and more of a love affair."
~ G.K. Chesterton

"When you go out on a boat and look around, you feel as if the shore were moving. But if you fix your eyes on the rim of the boat, you become aware that the boat is moving. It is exactly the same when you try to know the objective world while still in a state of confusion in regard to your own body and mind; you are under the misapprehension that your own mind, your own nature, is something real and enduring [while the external world is transitory]. Only when you sit straight and look into yourself, does it become clear that [you yourself are changing ] the objective world has a reality apart from you."


quote(s) / poem(s) n° 3968: Shobo Genzo, Buddhism, Mahayana, Zen (Chan)