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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.

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Year’s end, all corners of this floating world, swept.
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Age Float Time World
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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Day Journey Myself Sea Wind
Friends part forever wild geese lost in cloud.
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Cloud Forever Friendship Lost Wild
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
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Growth Nature Quiet Spring
Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Age Fresh Mountain Nature Spring Time World
Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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Deep Learning Listen Nature Talk Wisdom
The haiku that reveals seventy to eighty percent of its subject is good. Those that reveal fifty to sixty percent, we never tire of.
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Goodness Hide Mystery Poem Reveal
The desire to break the silence with constant human noise is, I believe, precisely an avoidance of the sacred terror of that divine encounter.
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Avoid Believe Break Desire Divine Human Myself Noise Silence Sound
How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Face Flower God Myself See
Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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Fall Moon Night Tree
The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, “I shall be unhappy without loneliness,” shows that he made loneliness his master.
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Beginning Lonely Master Myself Poem
Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.
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Deep Enough Gide Leaving Object Subject Yourself
Sadly, I part from you; Like a clam torn from its shell, I go, and autumn too.
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Autumn Break Up End Leaving Myself Relationship Yourself
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Day Destination Home Journey
All my friends / viewing the moon – / an ugly bunch.
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Friendship Moon Ugly View
Around existence twine, (Oh, bridge that hangs across the gorge!) ropes of twisted vine.
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Existence Plant Rope Twisted

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