Tea is instant wisdom - just add water! -- Astrid Alauda
The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism ... for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and nature. It is hygiene, for it enforces cleanliness; it is economics, for it shows comfort in simplicity rather than in the complex and costly; it is moral geometry, inasmuch as it defines our sense of proportion to the universe. -- Kakuzo Okakura, from Book of Tea
When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking. -- Thich Nhat Hanh, from Anger: wisdom for Cooling the Flames
If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. -- Japanese Proverb
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much love, light and laughter, ananya.
*~Come play with my children feel the peace and Scatter some joy.~* ~*Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make your's burn any brighter.*~ We can't all be stars, but we can all twinkle. We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.
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The Way of Tea lies in studying the ceremony, in understanding the principles, and in grasping the reality of things. These are its three rules. ~ Hosokawa Tadaoki
Tea with us became more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life. ~ Kakuzo Okakura, The Book of Tea
Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea?—how did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea. ~ Sydney Smith
Come oh come ye tea-thirsty restless ones - the kettle boils, bubbles and sings, musically” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
*** Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers
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It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization.~Agnes Repplier (1858-1950, To Think of Tea!, ch. 2 (1932)
The English do not strain their tea in the fervid fashion we [Americans] do. They like to see a few tea leaves dawdling about the cup. They like to know what they are drinking.~ch. 13, Ibid.
* * * Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, our one duty is to furnish it well~Peter Ustinov
Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. ~ Samuel Johnson
Tea tempers the spirit and harmonizes the mind; dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness. ~ Lu Yu, The Sage of Tea
*** Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was. ~ Will Rogers
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