The pearl of the mind is always of penetrating splendor; the self-nature from the outset is perfectly bright. Awaken to principle and know where the real is tending toward; thusness is quiescent and wordless. Chatting about the written teaching, from this comes the Ch'an of false thoughts.
-- Fa-chao
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
-- Albert Einstein