Vanessa

“Nothing in the cry
of cicadas suggests they
are about to die”
― Matsuo Bashō

“He whose (desires) are few gets them; he whose (desires) are many goes astray.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“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

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