“Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.”
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“It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.”
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“Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?”
― Zen and Japanese Culture
― Zen and Japanese Culture
“The universe is so well balanced that the mere fact that you have a problem also serves as a sign that there is a solution.”
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free
― Life, the Truth, and Being Free
“Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the
universe, except that everyone else is still here.”
― Everything Beautiful Began After
universe, except that everyone else is still here.”
― Everything Beautiful Began After
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