What would I do without a mind?
What would I do without a society to shape that mind?
To influence it?
To taint it?
To glorify it?
What would I do without the memories of such glory and such tache?
An orphan on a deserted island, with nothing from the outside world, save the produce of Nature which surrounds me.
I suppose I would be free....
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Ryokan
Though travels take me to a different stopping place each night the dream I dream is always that same one of home - Ryokan
Let the smallest lust for fame and fortune enter the mind, and all the waters of the ocean will not wash it away. - Ryokan
"The warm traveler creates the country he passes through. And he creates it, of course, in his own image. That is why, leaving your country, I have taken with me only myself." (Nikos Kazantzakis)
"The warm traveler creates the country he passes through. And he creates it, of course, in his own image. That is why, leaving your country, I have taken with me only myself." (Nikos Kazantzakis)
ReplyDelete...thank you for Ryokan
That's a nice piece...
ReplyDeleteThank god for Ryokan!
What I meant was, thank you for introducing me to his work.
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