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“All that's visible springs from causes intimate to you. While walking, sitting, lying down, the body itself is complete truth. If someone asks the inner meaning of this: Inside the treasury of dharma eye a single grain of dust.”

Ifs Body Eye Lying Asks Causes Walking Spring Sitting Dust Intimate Visible Grain Dharma Treasury Lying Down

Author:Dogen

“Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.”

“No one is beat till he quits, no one is through till he stops. No matter how hard failure hits, no matter how often he drops, a fellow's not down till he lies in the dust and refuses to rise.”

Matter Hard Lying Beats Fellows Refuse Quitting Dust

Book:A Heap o' Living'

Source: A Heap o' Living'

“Look, Here are we, On this starry night staring into space, And I must say, I feel as small as dust, Lying down here...”

Feels Looks Lying Night Space Dust Staring Lying Down Starry Night Staring Into Space

Author:Dave Matthews

“Custom calls me to 't: What custom wills, in all things should we do't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heap't For truth to o'erpeer.”

Should Lying All Things Errors Dust Call Me Customs Antiques

Author:Brand Blanshard

“How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who naught attend save death when they are dead.”

Ifs Should Lying Atheism Dare Dust Beast Fabulous Scorn Beastly

Author:William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling

“Let me cradle myself back Into the darkness Of the half shapes ... Of the cauled beginnings ... Let me stir the attar of unused air, Elusive ... ironically fragrant As a dead queen's kerchief ... Let me blow the dust from off you ... Resurrect your breath Lying limp as a fan In a dead queen's hand.”

Hands Lying Half Darkness Air Fans Shapes Let Me Breaths Blow Dust Queens Cradle Elusive

Book:Sun-up, and Other Poems

Source: Sun-up, and Other Poems

“Eating, sleeping, cleaning - the years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won. Washing, ironing, sweeping, ferreting out rolls of lint from under wardrobes - all this halting of decay is also the denial of life; for time simultaneously creates and destroys, and only its negative aspect concerns the housekeeper.”

Years Lying Heaven Sleep Battle Eating Concern Negative Aspect Spread Dust Denial Gray Decay Dirt Cleaning Identical Washing Wardrobe Sweeping Housework Housekeepers

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“O what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What dust clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way! What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!”

Way Lying Behinds Spring Clouds Track Spread Speed Dust Magnificent Reckless Fling Carts

Book:The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition

Source: The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition

“All is going on as it was wont. The waves are hoarse with repetition of their mystery; the dust lies piled upon the shore; the sea-birds soar and hover; the winds and clouds go forth upon their trackless flight; the white arms beckon, in the moonlight, to the invisible country far away.”

Source: Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Export

“And though behind you lies a road of dust and heat and discouragement, and before you the challenge and uncertainty of untried paths, in this brief hour you are master of all highways, and the universe nestles in your soul.”

Soul Lying Universe Hours Challenges Behinds Path Masters Dust Your Soul Uncertainty Heat Highways Behind You Discouragement

Author:Max Ehrmann

“Had he been willing to live a hypocrite, he would have been respectable, he at least could have died surrounded by other hypocrites, and at his death there would have been an imposing funeral, with miles of carriages, filled with hypocrites, and above his hypocritical dust there would have been a hypocritical monument covered with lies.”

Has Beens Lying Atheism Willing Died Filled Positive Atheism Miles Dust Covered Funeral Monument Hypocrite Respectable Imposing Carriages Hypocritical

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll