5/22/2023 0 Comments A path between the seas![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a bookĪnd to carry with us the author’s best ideas. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a More via texts, memes and sound bytes, short but profound quotes from books have become Memorable and interesting quotes from great books. ― Yukio Mishima, quote from The Temple of DawnīookQuoters is a community of passionate readers who enjoy sharing the most meaningful, Not only Honda, but the vast majority of Westernized Japanese, could no longer stand such intensely native elements.” All his life he had dodged things fundamental and artless: white silk, clear cold water, the zigzag white paper of the exorciser’s staff fluttering in the breeze, the sacred precinct marked by a torii, the gods’ĭwelling in the sea, the mountains, the vast ocean, the Japanese sword with its glistening blade so pure and sharp. Like the majority of Japanese he ignored it, behaving as though it did not exist and surviving byĮscaping from it. Honda’s life was not imbued with such spirit. Through which one could glimpse pebbles below, or the probity of Shinto rites. ![]() Traveling through a country like Thailand, Honda realized more clearly than ever the simplicity and purity of things Japanese, like transparent stream water “However, whatever frightening mask it might assume, the national spirit in its original state was of pristine whiteness. ![]()
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