Top 39 R. H. Blyth Quotes

#1. Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#2. There is nothing intrinsically more beautiful or poetical about the moon than about a dunghill; if anything, the contrary, for the latter is full of life and warmth and energy.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#3. Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#4. 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.

R.H. Blyth

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#5. Disdainful of fur and fretful, privately, about the cost of his buttons, Jerott Blyth sat like the born horseman he was, and watched discreetly for trouble.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#6. A haiku is not a poem, it is not literature; it is a hand beckoning, a door half-opened, a mirror wiped clean. It is a way of returning to nature, to our moon nature, our cherry blossom nature, our falling leaf nature, in short, to our Buddha nature.

R.H. Blyth

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#7. Two came here, Two flew off, - Butterflies. Chora3 In this verse, the ordinary poetical meaning is discarded; what remains is that dark flame of life that burns in all things. It is seen with the belly, not with the eye; with "bowels of compassion.

R.H. Blyth

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#8. We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#9. The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.

R.H. Blyth

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#10. Things have done their part; it is for us to do ours ...

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#11. What Mr Blyth has been engaged in was not love, my dear Francis. It was romance, a thing to which Mr Blyth has been very prone; together with melodrama. Whatever made you think that melodrama makes Mr Blyth uncomfortable? He revels in it.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#12. Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#13. Mud is the most poetical thing in the world.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#14. A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#15. ...belief that a painting is a window onto another world requires a leap of faith, a willingness to be won over by what lies within the frame.

Sarah Ganz Blyth

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#16. A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#17. Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, but appropriate actions in an imperfect one.

R.H. Blyth

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#18. What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#19. I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#20. Nothing divides one so much as thought.

R.H. Blyth

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#21. There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#22. In general, the deployment of austerity as economic policy has been as effective in bringing us peace, prosperity, and crucially, a sustained reduction of debt, as the Mongol Golden Horde was in furthering the development of Olympic dressage.

Mark Blyth

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#23. Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#24. Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth ...

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#25. The quality of your life is the outcome of your own thoughts

Laureli Blyth

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#26. Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth ...

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#27. These are some of the characteristics of the state of mind which the creation and appreciation of haiku demand: Selflessness, Loneliness, Grateful Acceptance, Wordlessness, Non-intellectuality, Contradictoriness, Humor, Freedom, Non-morality, Simplicity, Materiality, Love, and Courage.

R.H. Blyth

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#28. She got in, as she had persuaded Jerott Blyth to bring her half across France, by force of logic, a kind of flat-chested innocence and the doggedness of a flower-pecker attacking a strangling fig.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#29. Kids take up all available time - it's the basic law of parenthood. No matter how much time you give them, whether you work from eight to eight or are around the house all the time, you'll still feel you haven't been there enough for them.

Myrna Blyth

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#30. If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#31. Thus we see that the all important thing is not killing or giving life, drinking or not drinking, living in the town or the country, being unlucky or lucky, winning or losing. It is how we win, how we lose, how we live or die, finally, how we choose.

R.H. Blyth

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#32. Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#33. Every time you try to do something that anxiety wants to stop you from doing, you've struck a blow that will make the anxiety weaker.

Jamie Blyth

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#34. Mr Blyth, you should remember one thing. A celibate island life fighting Turks is no particular guarantee of early maturity. Take a little crone-like advice, and don't rush your judgements.

Dorothy Dunnett

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#35. Freedom is not doing what you like, but liking what you do.

R.H. Blyth

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#36. 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.

R.H. Blyth

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#37. Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#38. Think of Zen, of the Void, of Good and Evil and you are bound hand and foot. Think only and entirely and completely of what you are doing at the moment and you are free as a bird.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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#39. What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions.

Reginald Horace Blyth

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