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Page 66
... soul feels empty there . After the sleep of ice , the buffalo hunt , the big plow , and the house on the plains , we walk around our yards , survey our fences . The soul comforts itself with work , with business , with crop production ...
... soul feels empty there . After the sleep of ice , the buffalo hunt , the big plow , and the house on the plains , we walk around our yards , survey our fences . The soul comforts itself with work , with business , with crop production ...
Page 149
... soul , teach us to admire . We have conquered in our turn ... our reason has swept everything away . Alone at last , we build our empire upon a desert . How then could we conceive that higher balance in which nature balanced history ...
... soul , teach us to admire . We have conquered in our turn ... our reason has swept everything away . Alone at last , we build our empire upon a desert . How then could we conceive that higher balance in which nature balanced history ...
Page 198
... soul of this little book , its kokoro , cannot be found simply by defining form . Bashō completely redefined haiku , he transformed haibun . But these accomplish- ments grew out of arduous studies in poetry , Buddhism , history , Taoism ...
... soul of this little book , its kokoro , cannot be found simply by defining form . Bashō completely redefined haiku , he transformed haibun . But these accomplish- ments grew out of arduous studies in poetry , Buddhism , history , Taoism ...
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The Necessity to Speak | 3 |
Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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