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“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
More on contemplative ecology from Thoreau→
↝ https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2020/01/walden-pond.html ↜
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The most prolific of poets in Edo period Japan, Matsuo Bashō set aside his aristocratic literary career in favor of a shaven head and rag robes during contemplative pilgrimage, his dreams wandering withered fields while sick and dying.
Continued: https://unityinplurality.blogspot.com/2020/05/wandering-dream-fields.html
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Daoist Robe of Descent
China
18th-19th Century
Embroidered silk satin in coloured silk and gold threads
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