Basho's Pond

Naked Love

2015-02-14T12:42:00.003+08:00

I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.

- Maya Angelou

Bottled up

2015-02-07T21:30:00.000+08:00

If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.

~Aeschylus

Beso de Luna

2015-02-04T20:57:00.000+08:00

There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.

~Matsuo Basho

Blue

2015-02-04T00:36:00.001+08:00

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the Deity to be a source of delight.

~John Ruskin

Art of Scent

2015-02-04T00:26:00.000+08:00

Perfume is magic. It’s mystery. We recreate the smell of a flower. Of wood. Of grass. We capture the essence of life. Liquefy it. We store memories. We make dreams,” he told her once. “What we do is a wonder, an art, and we have a responsibility to do it well."

~M.J. Rose

Coffee time

2015-02-02T23:03:00.000+08:00

The air feels sugary and thick, between the coffee steam and the music, and I forget to notice time passing, hours passing.

Jackson Pearce

Sailing clouds

2015-01-27T20:56:00.001+08:00

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

Roger Ebert

Cocktail Party

2015-01-26T22:12:00.001+08:00

Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning. Everybody's talking at once in a hypnotic, hyper din: the cocktail party from hell.

Maureen Dowd

True Love

2015-01-26T22:02:00.006+08:00

True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding.

Ellen G. White

Le Macaron

2015-01-25T23:32:00.000+08:00

The macarons, though only a few grams, agitate our senses. The eyes have already devoured them. Fingers skim their surface, the flavors are gently smelled. When their fine crunchy shell is crushed, the ears are excited by the sound. Then the mouth experiences a delicate grace..

Pierre Hermé

Clockwork

2015-01-24T08:27:00.000+08:00

The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not...

Thomas Carlyle

To the sky

2015-01-12T19:22:00.000+08:00

“Birds-eye view

Awake the stars 'cause they're all around you

Wide eyes will always brighten the blue

Chase your dreams

And remember me, sweet bravery

'Cause after all those wings will take you up so high

So bid the forest floor goodbye as you race the wind

And take to the sky.”

Owl City

Tensile

2015-01-08T21:50:00.000+08:00

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Ernest Hemingway

Moon gate

2014-10-20T21:07:00.000+08:00

It is only through your conscious mind that you can reach the subconscious. Your conscious mind is the porter at the door, the watchman at the gate. It is to the conscious mind that the subconscious looks for all its impressions.

Robert Collier

Rain and shine

2014-07-12T23:01:00.001+08:00

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

John Ruskin

Simplicity

2014-07-03T21:16:00.000+08:00

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Time and Tide

2014-02-05T23:57:00.004+08:00

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Where the water flows

2014-01-23T22:44:00.000+08:00

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

Margaret Atwood

Lantern

2013-03-09T22:42:00.004+08:00

Light is more important than the lantern,

the poem more important than the notebook.

Nizar Qabbani

My Seven Storey Mountain

2013-01-07T23:39:00.001+08:00

The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.

Robert M. Pirsig

Carved

2013-01-06T15:59:00.001+08:00

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

Charles Buxton

The Blissful Path

2013-01-05T23:19:00.000+08:00

The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Dragonfly Sky

2012-12-31T00:59:00.001+08:00

Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.

James Thurber

Wind of Joy

2012-12-12T09:40:00.000+08:00

Those who remain unmoved by the wind of joy silently follow the Path.

Bodhidharma

When blue gets sunny

2012-11-02T22:27:00.000+08:00

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition.

William Arthur Ward