The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things.. .. When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living. To do this twenty-four hours a day is the Way of Haiku. It is having life more abundantly. R.H. Blyth
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  1. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about. - Jalaluddin Rumi

  2. The world is filled with love-play, from animal lust to sublime compassion. - Alan W. Watts

  3. Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it. - Ray Bradbury

  4. Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar - Jim Butcher

  5. Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be. - Bob Dylan

More Quotes By R.H. Blyth
  1. The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets.

  2. The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.

  3. Nothing divides one so much as thought.

  4. The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them–these sticks, stones, feathers, shells–there is no Deity.

  5. The sun shines, snow falls, mountains rise and valleys sink, night deepens and pales into day, but it is only very seldom that we attend to such things.. .. When we are grasping the inexpressible meaning of these things, this is life, this is living....

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