Cold Mountain Buddhas Han Shan Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness be dancing. Whisper of running streams, and winter lightning. The wild thyme unseen and the wild strawberry, The laughter in the garden, echoed ecstasy Not lost, but requiring, pointing to the agony Of death and birth.

So the lover must struggle for words.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.