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“Would you like an adventure now, or would like to have your tea first?”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan

“In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.”
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“The crack in the tea-cup opens
A lane to the land of the dead.”
― As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks & Other Light Verse
A lane to the land of the dead.”
― As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks & Other Light Verse

“When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everything in me that is bewildered and confused.”
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“In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. We eat, drink, sing, dance, and flirt with them. We wed and christen with flowers. We dare not die without them. We have worshipped with the lily, we have meditated with the lotus, we have charged in battle array with the rose and the chrysanthemum. We have even attempted to speak in the language of flowers. How could we live without them? It frightens one to conceive of a world bereft of their presence.”
― The Book of Tea
― The Book of Tea

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