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Saigyo Quotes & Sayings

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I'd like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree. — Saigyo

Today's satori:
Such a change of mind would
Not exist without
My lifelong habit of having
My mind immersed in blossoms. — Saigyo

Limitations gone: Since my mind fixed on the moon, Clarity and serenity Make something for which There's no end in sight. — Saigyo

I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea. — Lenny Kravitz

Is love partnership for everyone? Is it essential to a life well lived, or is that just a cultural myth? — Jeff Brown

God enters through the wound. — Jung

This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in between the trees. — Saigyo

Returning to where
It used to see blossoms,
My mind, changed,
Will stay on at Yoshino ...
Home now, and see anew. — Saigyo

Every single thing changes and is changing always in this world. Yet with the same light the moon goes on shining. — Saigyo

The cherries' only fault: the crowds that gather when they bloom — Saigyo

The mind for truth
Begins, like a stream, shallow
At first, but then
Adds more and more depth
While gaining greater clarity. — Saigyo

The fact that Saigyo composed a poem that begins, "I shall be unhappy without loneliness," shows that he made loneliness his master. — Matsuo Basho

It shows a weak mind not to bear prosperity as well as adversity with moderation. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful. — Jock Sturges

Beyond this life and
This world I'll have it til
My heart's content:
The bright moon that passed over
The horizon before I had my fill. — Saigyo

Whatever it is, / I cannot understand it, / although gratitude / stubbornly overcomes me / until I'm reduced to tears. — Saigyo