Blyth Quotes

Freedom is not doing what you like, but liking what you do. — R.H. Blyth

We that change, hate change. And we that pass, love what abides. Ashes, darkness, dust. — Reginald Horace Blyth

Regarding R. H. Blyth: For translations, the best books are still those by R. H. Blyth ... — Reginald Horace Blyth

Things have done their part; it is for us to do ours ... — Reginald Horace Blyth

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Two men who may be called pillars of the Western haiku movement, Harold G. Henderson and R. H. Blyth ... — Reginald Horace Blyth

...belief that a painting is a window onto another world requires a leap of faith, a willingness to be won over by what lies within the frame. — Sarah Ganz Blyth

Mud is the most poetical thing in the world. — Reginald Horace Blyth

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells - there is no Deity. — R.H. Blyth

What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it looks at itself with our eyes. — Reginald Horace Blyth

I myself think that to have a cat is more important than to have a Bible. — Reginald Horace Blyth

Any enlightenment which requires to be authenticated, certified, recognized, congratulated, is (as yet) a false, or at least incomplete one. — Reginald Horace Blyth

What is essential is not the answer but the questions; the answers indeed are the death of the life that is in the questions. — Reginald Horace Blyth

A haiku is the expression of a temporary enlightenment, in which we see into the life of things. — Reginald Horace Blyth

Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks. — Reginald Horace Blyth

There is no greater difference between men than between grateful and ungrateful people. — Reginald Horace Blyth

Perfect does not mean perfect actions in a perfect world, but appropriate actions in an imperfect one. — R.H. Blyth

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen. — Reginald Horace Blyth

Nothing divides one so much as thought. — R.H. Blyth

The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated. — R.H. Blyth

If all men lead mechanical, unpoetical lives, this is the real nihilism, the real undoing of the world. — Reginald Horace Blyth

Every time you try to do something that anxiety wants to stop you from doing, you've struck a blow that will make the anxiety weaker. — Jamie Blyth

The love of nature is religion, and that religion is poetry; these three things are one thing. This is the unspoken creed of haiku poets. — R.H. Blyth

Zen is the unsymbolization of the world. — Reginald Horace Blyth

The quality of your life is the outcome of your own thoughts — Laureli Blyth

A thief running away like mad from a ferocious watch-dog may be a splendid example of Zen. — Reginald Horace Blyth