Eternal tourists of ourselves, there is no landscape but what we are. We possess nothing, for we don’t even possess ourselves. We have nothing because we are nothing. What hand will I reach out, and to what universe? The universe isn’t mine: it’s me.
Fernando Pessoa
To achieve or regain immortality, Taoists go into hiding in the mountains, collecting herbs and precious woods. In order to do this, they do not have to leave their own home. Like Hsüan Chieh … they make themselves very small and disappear into the miniature garden.
Rolf Stein
But a little garden, the littler the better, is your richest chance of happiness and success.
Reginald Farrar