Vanessa

“Not knowing the name of the tree,
I stood in the flood
of its sweet scent.”
― Matsuo Bashō

“Moon woke me up
nine times
—still just 4 a.m.”
― Matsuo Bashō, Moon Woke Me Up Nine Times: Selected Haiku of Basho

“Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who has a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.”
― J.C. Ryle

“Pausing between clouds
the moon rests
in the eyes of its beholders”
― Matsuo Bashō