Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
MATSUO BASHOClapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.
More Matsuo Basho Quotes
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The journey itself is my home.
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I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.
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Without bitterest cold that penetrates to the very bone, how can plum blossoms send forth their fragrance all over the world?
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Fresh spring! / The world is only Nine days old – / These fields and mountains!
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Old dark sleepy pool… Quick unexpected frog Goes plop! Watersplash!
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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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The universe and its beings are a complementarity of empty infinity, intimate interrelationships, and total uniqueness of each and every being.
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Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.
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A weathered skeleton in windy fields of memory, piercing like a knife.
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Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end – tonight’s moon.
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How I long to see among dawn flowers, the face of God.
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Seek not the paths of the ancients; Seek that which the ancients sought.
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The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
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Not to think of yourself / as someone who did not count — / Festival of the Souls.
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Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?
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