The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. Okakura Kakuzo More Quotes by Okakura Kakuzo More Quotes From Okakura Kakuzo Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others. Okakura Kakuzo running appreciation life A garden is a friend you can visit any time. Okakura Kakuzo garden-love gardening garden Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. Okakura Kakuzo tea beautiful order Friends are flowers in life's garden. Okakura Kakuzo garden flower We take refuge in pride, because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves. Okakura Kakuzo telling-the-truth pride truth Tea is more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life. Okakura Kakuzo drinking life art In our common parlance we speak of the man "with no tea" in him, when he is insusceptible to the serio-comic interests of the personal drama. Okakura Kakuzo understanding tea men Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. Okakura Kakuzo bamboo dream beautiful Meanwhile, let us have a sip of tea. The afternoon glow is brightening the bamboos, the fountains are bubbling with delight, the soughing of the pines is heard in our kettle. Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things. Okakura Kakuzo dream tea beautiful Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their colour; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness. The masterpiece is of ourselves, as we are of the masterpiece. Okakura Kakuzo creativity sadness artist Cares melt when you kneel in your garden. Okakura Kakuzo gardening care garden Perfection is everywhere if we only choose to recognise it. Okakura Kakuzo recognise ifs perfection It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress. Okakura Kakuzo progress realization self In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. Okakura Kakuzo sadness garden flower In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything is done with so much ritual and ceremony that a banal daily event is transformed into a moment of communion with the universe. Okakura Kakuzo small-rooms japan perfection The ancient sages never put their teachings in a systematic form. They spoke in paradoxes, for they were afraid of uttering half-truths. They began by talking like fools and ended by making their hearers wise. Okakura Kakuzo teaching wise talking True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete. Okakura Kakuzo true-beauty inner-beauty incomplete Tea began as a medicine and grew into a beverage. Okakura Kakuzo beverages medicine tea The canvas upon which the artist paints is the spectator's mind. Okakura Kakuzo canvas artist mind In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely.... Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius. Okakura Kakuzo ivory queens sweet
