"Make time for play ...."

Make time for play each day .... Practice nonsense.

Joan Erikson

"There's more to life ...."

There’s more to life than thinking.  Everyone is soooo serious ….

Joan Erikson

"There are no lines in nature ...."

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

Edouard Manet

"You can't be suspicious ...."

You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.

Hal Borland

"... If you really understand Zen ...."

“… If you really understand Zen, you can use any book.  You could use the Bible.  You could use Alice in Wonderland.  You could use the dictionary, because the sound of the rain needs no translation.”

Alan Watts

"Stone walls do not a prison make ...."

Stone walls do not a prison make,

  Nor iron bars a cage;

Minds innocent and quiet take

  That for an hermitage;

If I have freedom in my love

  And in my soul am free,

Angels alone, that soar above,

  Enjoy such liberty.

Richard Lovelace