"Tall ships and tall kings three
times three. What brought they
from the founded land over the
flowing sea? Seven stars and
seven stones, and one white
tree."-The Lord of the Rings
When I was a boy of fourteen,
my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be twenty one, I was astonished
at how much he had learned in seven years."
Mark Twain
A monk asked, “The mountains, the rivers, and the great earth-from where did all of these things come forth?”
Tiantai said, “From where did this question come forth?”
-Zen’s Chinese Heritage
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