(Chinese)

As is the human body,

so is the cosmic body.

As is the human mind,

so is the cosmic mind.

As is the microcosm,

so is the macrocosm.

As is the atom,

so is the universe.

The Upanishads

Everything is holy!
Everybody's holy!
Everywhere is holy!
Everyday is in eternity!
Everyman's an angel!
Allen Ginsberg

Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Somebody showed it to me and I found it by myself.
Lew Welch

I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough.
Diogenes

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A hand-rolled
Dumpling of
Heaven-and-earth:
I've gulped it down
And easily it went.
Dim Sum Zen

Picture a massless particle.
A Koan of Modern Physics

Even a good thing isn't as good as nothing.
Zen saying

Among the great things which are to be found among us, the Being of Nothingness is the greatest.
Leonardo Da Vinci

Knock,
And He'll open the door.
Vanish,
And He'll make you shine like the sun.

Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens.
Become nothing,
And He'll turn you into everything!
Rumi

What is the sound of one hand clapping?
Zen Koan

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
William Blake

One cannot step twice into the same river.
Herakleitos

Lift the stone and you will find me; cleave the wood and I am there.
Jesus

The prayer of the monk is not perfect until he no longer recognizes himself or the fact that he is praying.
St. Anthony

When you understand one thing through and through, you understand everything.
Shunryu Suzuki

A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)
T.S. Eliot

Must it be?
It must be.
Beethoven

When the way comes to an end, then change - having changed, you pass through.
I Ching

I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry.
John Cage

You say my poems are poetry!
They are not.
Yet if you understand they are not -
Then you see the poetry of them.
Ryokan

To see a World in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
William Blake

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