Shinto Quotes

“Not specifically. "Demons have been on Earth as long as we have. They're all over the world, in their different forms – Greek daemons, Persian daevas, Hindu asuras, Japanese oni. Most belief systems have some method of incorporating both their existence and the fight against them. Shadowhunters cleave to no single religion, and in turn all religions assist us in our battle. I could as easily have gone for help to a Jewish synagogue or a Shinto temple, or – Ah. Here it is.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

“To be fully alive is to have an aesthetic perception of life because a major part of the world's goodness lies in its often unspeakable beauty.”
― Yukitaka Yamamoto

“Heart-Mind, left to its natural state, is vast as a panorama of Nature.”
― Frank LaRue Owen, The School of Soft Attention

“Make the sunrise a temple.”
― Frank LaRue Owen, The School of Soft Attention

“Purification in Shinto lifts the burden from the shoulders of the individual and washes it away.”
― Stuart D. B. Picken, Shinto Meditations for Revering the Earth

“Heart-Mind, left to its natural state, is vast as a panorama of Nature. - from The School of Soft-Attention: Poems”
― Hawk of the Pines (Frank LaRue Owen)

“I used to keep a strong scaffolding in place.
It separated Pure Land from Zen
Zen from Dao
Dharma quarantined from the
way of mountain spirits.

With a sudden glance
in the middle of a storm,
the bottom dropped out
the scaffolding fell
along with my mind
and all of these nectars
poured into the same vat.”
― Frank LaRue Owen, Temple of Warm Harmony

“OH DAMN LOOKS LIKE SOMEONE IS HAVING A PARTY. TIME TO TRANSFER THE ENTIRE LIQUOR CONTENT OF THAT PARTY INTO MY BODY.”
― Cory O'Brien, Zeus Grants Stupid Wishes: A No-Bullshit Guide to World Mythology

“In these times, when even a simple day can feel like a firing pin, stretching corpse-like upon the earth is not leisure. It is medicine.”
― Frank LaRue Owen, The School of Soft Attention