Did you not know that at the edge of a deep valley
there is an excellent pine tree
Growing straight in spirit of the many years of cold?
-Keizan
Growing straight in spirit of the many years of cold?
-Keizan
When the forest is dead,
we understand the great power of life
when we see a flower that suddenly blooms.
-Hong Zicheng
we understand the great power of life
when we see a flower that suddenly blooms.
-Hong Zicheng
The perfect joys of heaven
do not satisfy the cravings of nature.
-William Hazlitt
Who or what, then, can tell me of what is outside Nature,
if it is not the sudden illumination and identification or fusion,
of what in myself is identical with what surrounds me?
My bones are mineral, my connective tissues are vegetal,
my blood and organs are animal, my brain is human.
This coordinated ensemble is of Nature,
but this interpenetrated Whole is outside-Nature.
Nature is the symbolic form of what is outside-Nature.
-R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
Nature is the bridge to cross to Thy dwelling place.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan
