Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
MATSUO BASHOThe desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps’ nest.
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How much I desire! Inside my little satchel, the moon, and flowers.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Don’t imitate me / we are not two halves / of a muskmelon.
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Year by year, the monkey’s mask reveals the monkey.
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I felt quite at home, / As if it were mine sleeping lazily / In this house of fresh air.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
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The oak tree: not interested in cherry blossoms.
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There came a day when the clouds drifting along with the wind aroused a wanderlust in me, and I set off on a journey to roam along the seashores
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There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
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Come, butterfly It’s late- We’ve miles to go together.
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The sea darkens And a wild duck s call Is faintly white.
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