"Learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon."

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Source : Ikkyū (2003). “Wild Ways: Zen Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

Ikkyu

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“You truly help people with the things that you sell. Once you are aware of that vital piece of information every demonstration, every presentation, every transaction will be delivered with a light shining from your heart. From your heart will shine a beacon that tells all prospects you can truly help and that that is your sole purpose for being there.”
“I think I came up in fighting in a really technical way. If you've ever seen my fights, you know I love distance, I love technique.”
“It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.”
“A Christian has no business being satisfied with mediocrity. He's supposed to reach for the stars. Why not? He's not on his own anymore. He has God's help now.”
“For each glass, liberally large, the basic ingredients begin with ice cubes in a shaker and three or four drops of Angostura bitters on the ice cubes. Add several twisted lemon peels to the shaker, then a bottle-top of dry vermouth, a bottle-top of Scotch, and multiply the resultant liquid content by five with gin, preferably Bombay Sapphire. Add more gin if you think it is too bland... I have been told, but have no personal proof that it is true, that three of these taken in the course of an evening make it possible to fly from New York to Paris without an airplane.”
“I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.”
“It seems to me that any ideology is bad because it is inevitably reductive and identifies other ideologies as evil, and itself with truth, whereas both truth and goodness are always transcendent.”
“The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.”

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