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“When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with a silent joy. . . . All the cares, perplexities, and griefs of existence, all the burdens of life slip from my shoulders and leave me with the heart of a little child that asks nothing beyond the present moment of innocent bliss.”

“The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.”

Firsts Book Moments Lasts Five Minutes Errors Productions Finished Bliss Flaws Five Minutes Doorstep Culmination Moment Of Truth

Book:More Matter: Essays And Criticism

Source: More Matter: Essays And Criticism

“Swift flies our time on pinions fleet, Like vapours on the breeze; The transient bliss we now call sweet, The passing moments seize. The gilded joy, the present hour, Soon wing themselves away; Departing like the fading flower That pleas'd us Yesterday.”

Moments Joy Hours Sweet Flower Wings Yesterday Passing Passings Bliss Our Time Breeze Transient Fading Gilded Departing Vapour Passing Moments

Book:Poems on Various Subjects

Source: Poems on Various Subjects

“Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single goddamn moment. And you aren't bliss, I'll tell you that right now. You're a mess. We all are.”

Moments Brain Right Now Wave Mess Bliss Trance Alphas

Book:Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality

Source: Hardcore Zen: Punk Rock, Monster Movies and the Truth About Reality