The Zen master Hakuin used to tell his students about an old woman who owned a tea shop in the village. She was skilled in the tea ceremony, Hakuin said, and her understanding of Zen was superb. Many students wondered about this and went to the village themselves to check her out. Whenever the old…
If a man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty. – Japanese proverb
One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams. – John Milton on tea
I often have people ask me which kind of tea is the healthiest, and they tend to get frustrated when I don’t give a clear-cut answer. Here’s why there is no perfect answer: Clinical research on the health benefits of tea done all over the world today often does not contain specific information on what…
I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation of is virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spiritous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence in a more safe inspirer of social joy. — James Boswell (1740-1795)
Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take — and sometimes tea. – Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. Okakura Kakuzo The Book of Tea
The progress of the famous plant has been something like the progress of truth; suspected at first, though very palatable to those who had the courage to taste it; resisted as it encroached; abused as its popularity seemed to spread; and established in its triumph at last, in cheering the whole land from the palace…
I start early in the morning. I’m usually out in the woods with the dog as soon as it gets light; then I drink a whole lot of tea and start as early as I can, and I go as long as I can. – Robert Stone
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