Spring Moon Ninomiya Beach, Kawase Hasui, 1932

A room with a view

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A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

William Shakespeare (via goodreadss)

"There is no ignorance,

and no end to ignorance.

There is no old age and death,

and no end to old age and death.

There is no suffering, no cause of suffering,

no end to suffering, no path to follow.

There is no attainment of wisdom,

and no wisdom to attain.

The Bodhisattvas rely on the Perfection of Wisdom, and so with no delusions, they feel no fear, and have Nirvana here and now."

—the heart sutra

Love came, and became like blood in my body. It rushed through my veins and encircled my heart.

Everywhere I looked, I saw one thing. Love’s name written on my limbs, on my left palm, on my forehead, on the back of my neck, on my right big toe.

Oh, my friend, all that you see of me is just a shell, and the rest belongs to love.

~ Rumi

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.”

Agatha Christie (via goodreadss)

Avalokiteśvara with Tārā, Bhṛkuṭī, and Hayagrīva, Nālandā, BIhar circa late 10th century