Tag: Simplicity

It is difficult to find happiness in oneself but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. – Schopenhauer

You’ve traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The gravity of the Tang and the profundity of

A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he knew to get rid of them.

If you want to draw near to God, seek him in the hearts of those around you. Speak well of all, present or absent. If you would be

No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees. – Thomas Merton

There are a thousand flowers blossoming in spring, The magical light of the full moon in autumn; There is a breeze in summer, And snow in winter; And

And do not change. Do not divert your love from visible things. But go on loving what is good, simple and ordinary; animals and things and flowers, and

You should study not only that you become a mother when your child is born, but also that you become a child. – Dogen

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. – Walt Whitman