Innumberable Wondrous Features

Mountains and oceans have whole worlds of innumerable wondrous

features. We should understand that it is not only our distant surroundings

that are like this, but even what is right here, even a single drop of water.
~ Dogen Zenji, excerpt from Genjokoan, trans. by Paul Jaffe

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[GMW #3033]

All Partakes Of The Perfection Of The Whole

Every particular in nature,
a leaf, a drop, a crystal,
a moment of time
is related to the whole, and
partakes of the perfection of the whole.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

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[GMW #2962]