"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom. I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients." Gustave Courbet

16 November 2013

Awakened.

Bernini, Fountain of the Four Rivers (detail), 1651


The life of one day is enough to rejoice. Even though you live for just one day, if you can be awakened, that one day is vastly superior to one endless life of sleep. If this day in the lifetime of a hundred years is lost, will you ever touch it with your hands again? 

Dogen

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