Pagan Portal-Zen Druidry Quotes

“A monk and his student were standing at the crossing of a large stream. A beautiful woman stood nearby, upset that she could not cross as the current was too strong for her. Without a second thought, the monk picked her up and helped her across the stream, setting her down on the other side. As the monk and his student proceeded on towards their monastery, many hours later the student turned to the monk with a question.

“Master, why did you pick up that woman? Did you not know that in our monastery, it is forbidden to touch women? And she was beautiful!”

“Yes,” the monk said, “but I put her down on the other side. I see you are still carrying her.”
― Joanna van der Hoeven, Pagan Portal-Zen Druidry: Living a Natural Life, With Full Awareness

“The wave is a part of the ocean, even when it ceases to be a wave—it is still there, as the ocean. We are all like waves in the ocean.”
― Joanna van der Hoeven, Pagan Portal-Zen Druidry: Living a Natural Life, With Full Awareness