Unusual Way of Spiritual Practice
There is a characteristic of Zen which cannot be found in any other practice or in any religion. That is to say, its peculiar mode of expressing profound religious insight …
Pure Experience
Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it, has enough of truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Music to Elevate
Music lulls the disordered thoughts, and elevates the dejected spirits. Cervantes.
What is Complaining?
Constant complaining is a way to avoid having regret. Montaigne.
Beethoven’s Practice
How happy I am to be able to wander among bushes and herbs, under trees and over rocks. no man can love the country as I love it. Woods trees …
Nature of all things
Nothing is more miserable than to explore the nature of all things, to spy into the depths of the earth, and search by conjecture into the souls of those around …
Reinvent yourself as yourself
The secret with me is that in success, as in failure, in the consciousness of my doing, as in my habits, I am myself. There are a great many who …
Wandering
When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness, dreams were born. And …