282 ratings (4.16 avg)
51 reviews
more photos (6)

christopher leibow

Add friend

http://www.christopherleibow.wordpress.com

christopher’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (35)
currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (281)
did-not-finish‎ (0)

poetry‎ (9)

Stats | More…

“The perfume of incense reminds us of the pervading influence of virtue, the lamp reminds us of light of knowledge and the flowers which soon fade and die, reminds us of impermanence. When we bow, we express our gratitude to the Buddha for what his teachings have given us. This is the nature of Buddhist worship.”
― Anonymous

tags: buddha, flowers, gratitude, impermanence

4 likes

“We must find the way of love rather than that of being loved.”
― Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living

tags: being-loved-by-others, buddhism, gyomay-kubose, love

1 likes

“In the nembutsu we see and feel the Buddha everywhere and in everything. Life itself becomes the unfolding of Buddha”
― Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living

tags: buddha, life, nembutsu

1 likes

“We do not understand that we are literally able to live and enjoy life only because of other people and things. If one really understands this truth, he cannot help but become humble and appreciate others.”
― Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living

tags: bright-dawn, buddhism, everyday-suchness, gyomay-kubose, way-of-oneness

1 likes

“Concepts are not real things; a conceptualized world is a dead world. Living actualities lose their life when put into concepts.”
― Gyomay M. Kubose, Everyday Suchness: Buddhist Essays on Everyday Living

tags: buddhism, concepts, conceptualized-world

1 likes

More of christopher’s quotes…

recent posts
christopher’s Groups

¡ POETRY ! — 22522 members — last activity May 04, 2026 06:38PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more