Even if you lack all faith, simply to seat yourself before an image, hold a rosary and take up a sutra book is to perform a virtuous act, however perfunctory, even seated on your meditation chair with distracted mind, you will sink into meditation before you know it.
—Yoshida Kenkō, Essays in Idleness, translated by Meredith McKinney
Show up on time for yourself. Lost time is never found.
—Patricia Ryan Madson, Improv Wisdom: Don’t Prepare, Just Show Up
