In the Expert's mind the possibilities are ....

 

"In the Expert's mind the possibilities are limited.

In the Beginner's mind the possibilities are endless."

—Shunryu Suzuki

...a passing shadow gone so soon....

"We are here for only a moment,

visitors and strangers in the land

as our ancestors were before us. 

Our days on earth are like a passing shadow

gone so soon without a trace."

—1 Chronicles 29:14-16

A man and a woman and a blackbird are one.

 

I

"Among twenty snowy mountains,

The only moving thing

Was the eye of the blackbird."

IV

"A man and a woman

Are one,

A man and a woman and a blackbird

Are one."

—Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

...a dish of ice cream....

 

"The way we usually hold a relationship is that,

this relationship is ... out there, and it's supposed

to give me pleasure. In other words we make this

relationship into a dish of ice cream ... I've picked you 

out and you know what you are supposed to do."

—Charlotte Joko Beck, Everyday Zen

Phil's Icehouse

Texas Icon!

Don't get tangled in the world.

 

"Don't get tangled in the world.
Don't lose yourself in emptiness.
Be at peace in the oneness of things.
and all errors will disappear by themselves."
—Trust in Mind

...the startingly different....

"Because there is the startingly different,
there are house cat and cow."
—Song of the Jewel Mirror