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The still point allows us not to be consumed by the craziness that surrounds us, not only in the extreme situations but in our everyday life. So much in our culture now seems designed to agitate, and, in certain ways, we buy into it. All of
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“Er war von einer Malzbierhölle in eine Früchteteehölle geraten.”
― Der zweite Tod: Ein Fall für Kommissar Cederström
― Der zweite Tod: Ein Fall für Kommissar Cederström
“Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
“When I drink tea I am conscious of peace. The cool breath of heaven rises in my sleeves, and blows my cares away.”
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“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.”
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“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. We eat, drink, sing, dance, and flirt with them. We wed and christen with flowers. We dare not die without them. We have worshipped with the lily, we have meditated with the lotus, we have charged in battle array with the rose and the chrysanthemum. We have even attempted to speak in the language of flowers. How could we live without them? It frightens one to conceive of a world bereft of their presence.”
― The Book of Tea
― The Book of Tea
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