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The Book of Tea

Kakuzo Okakura
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It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.
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life is an expression, our unconscious actions the constant betrayal of our innermost thought.
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Confucius said that "man hideth not." Perhaps we reveal ourselves too much in small things because we have so little of the great to conceal.
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Definition is always limitation--the "fixed" and "unchangeless" are but terms expressive of a stoppage of growth. Said Kuzugen,--"The Sages move the world." Our standards of morality are begotten of the past needs of society, but is society to remain always the same? The observance of communal traditions involves a constant sacrifice of the individual to the state. Education, in order to keep up the mighty delusion, encourages a species of ignorance.
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We have an old saying in Japan that a woman cannot love a man who is truly vain, for their is no crevice in his heart for love to enter and fill up.
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"People criticise a picture by their ear."
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until one has made himself beautiful he has no right to approach beauty.
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Thus the tea-master strove to be something more than the artist,--art itself.
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