Taneda Santoka Quotes & Sayings

Completely dried up, They've become beans. — Santoka Taneda

Weeds grasp their own essence and express its truth. — Santoka Taneda

Do not fear facing people without your pants; the world is dirtier than your underwear. — M.F. Moonzajer

Funny how imperfections on the outside mean something splendid beneath. — Louise Penny

Edge of town
all graveyard
and the sound of waves — Santoka Taneda

Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life. — Santoka Taneda

To really evolve as awareness, be just like your own being in a self like yours and on a planet like this one. — John De Ruiter

Most political journalists come to Washington because they're snappy writers, big thinkers, or news breakers. Me? My ticket to the big leagues had little to do with talent. It was mostly about the governor I was covering, Bill Clinton. — Ron Fournier

Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flowers bloom, insects cry, water flows. There is no place we cannot find flowers or think of the moon. This is the essence of haiku. Go beyond the restrictions of your era, forget about purpose or meaning, separate yourself from historical limitations - there you will find the essence of true art, religion, and science. — Santoka Taneda

Do not be attached to the past or wait for the future. Be grateful for each day, that is enough. I do not believe in a future world, I deny the past. I believe entirely in the present. Employ your entire body and mind in the eternal now. — Santoka Taneda

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new. — Alexander Smith

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity. — Paulo Coelho

Several ripe persimmons Left on the branches; Gray clouds come and go. — Santoka Taneda

Talentless and incompetent as I am, there are two things I can do, and two things only: walk, with my own two feet; compose, composing my poems. — Santoka Taneda

Schopenhauer writes about marriage. He says getting married is like grasping blind into a sack of snakes and hoping to find an eel. — Laura Moriarty