How do you step from the top of a 100-foot pole?
-zen koan
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Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while
A great wind is bearing me across the sky.
-Ojibwa saying

Poetry, Proverbs, and Sayings from Zen and Tao {highly recommended}
Bruce Jones UCSD
whose The Rise of the University
somehow linked from Book of the Month & Book of the Month archive at Univ. Glasgow

If you want to tell me that the stars are not words, then stop calling them stars.
-Jack Kerouac