“When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass, and the cultivation of wisdom for incalculable eons are used. As a Buddha has been painted on a single scroll in this way, all buddhas are painted buddhas, and all painted buddhas are actual buddhas.” WayHas BeensTwoEarthUsedReligionMarkGrassThirtyClayBladesAltarsLumpsCultivationBlades Of Grass Author:Dogen
“There is always in the healthy mind an obscure prompting that religion teaches us rather to dig than to climb; that if we could once understand the common clay of earth we should understand everything. Similarly, we have the sentiment that if we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse. This is the great truth which has always lain at the back of baby-worship, and which will support it to the end.” IfsNeedsShouldMindChildrenEndsEarthStarsCommonTeachSupportBabyHealthyWorshipBlowClimbsCustomsSentimentsObscureApocalypseClayHealthy Mind Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.” WellsEarthGoldEarsRegardRewardsClay Book:Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man Source: Emblems, Divine and Moral: The School of the Heart ; And, Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man
“Was it for this the clay grew tall? O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?” MadeEarthSleepBreakGrewTallToilClayFutilitySunbeams Author:Wilfred Owen
“Love is the weapon which Omnipotence reserved to conquer rebel man when all the rest had failed. Reason he parries; fear he answers blow for blow; future interest he meets with present pleasure; but love, that sun against whose melting beams the winter cannot stand--that soft subliming slumber which wrestles down the giant, there is not one human being in a million, nor a thousand men in all earth's huge quintillion, whose clay heart is hardened against love.” MenLoveHumansHeartReasonEarthInterestHuman BeingsAnswersLove IsPleasureMillionsSunHugeThousandWeaponsWinterBlowConquerGiantsRebelClayMeltingReservedBeamSlumberHardenedOmnipotenceAgainst Love Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper