"How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? The plum tree in the garden!"

-- Brad Warner

#Garden Quotes #Light Quotes #Tree Quotes

“Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions, the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.”
“Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.”
“Anytime you get men in glitter, it's a flamboyant occasion!”
“It is utterly implausible that a mathematical formula should make the future known to us, and those who think it can would once have believed in witchcraft.”
“Sicily could only be an island, less by the caprice of nature than by her own insolence. As though she might have quit Italy had she not already been born separate from it.”
“Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage.”
“I will engage in no transaction which does not benefit all whom it affects”
“live in the space between chaos and shape. I walk the line that continually threatens to lose its tautness under me, dropping me into the dark pit where there is no meaning. At other times the line is so wired that it lights up the soles of my feet, gradually my whole body, until I am my own beacon, and I see then the beauty of newly created worlds, a form that is not random. A new beginning.”

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