Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence.Okakura KakuzĹŤ
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.Okakura KakuzĹŤ
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.Okakura KakuzĹŤ
In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.Okakura KakuzĹŤ
Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others.Okakura KakuzĹŤ
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.Okakura KakuzĹŤ
The whole ideal of Teaism is a result of this Zen conception of greatness in the smallest incidents of life.Okakura KakuzĹŤ
Art, therefore, is the inevitable consequence of this grandeur in the tea-masters, their spiritual force having been the chief factor in that beauty they have accomplished.Okakura KakuzĹŤ
Our mind is the canvas on which the artists lay their color; their pigments are our emotions; their chiaroscuro the light of joy, the shadow of sadness.Okakura KakuzĹŤ
To the artist, life itself is an art and the simplest particle of nature a source of instruction. This is the Way of Tea.Okakura KakuzĹŤ