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“I'd keep your beauty timeless.
like a flower pressed in a book, yes
I wouldn't let it fade
Folded in the chapters of my mind”
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like a flower pressed in a book, yes
I wouldn't let it fade
Folded in the chapters of my mind”
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“You are nothing but a flower opening, so that the whole is filled with fragrance through you. If you can drop yourself, those flowers can shower this very morning, this very moment.”
― And The Flowers Showered Discourses On Zen
― And The Flowers Showered Discourses On Zen
“The golden flower blooms if you are ready to die to the past, if you are utterly in the present. And you can be utterly in the present only if you have no desire to be anywhere else in the future, if you have no desire to be somebody else. This I call enlightenment.”
― The secret of secrets
― The secret of secrets
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