“The story of each stone leads back to a mountain.”
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
“We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.”
“The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer mountains, and afterward mountains were again mountains could be interpreted as an allegory about [the perpetual paradox that when one is closest to a destination one is also the farthest).”
“Have you beauty, that leads the heart from things fashioned of wood and stone to the holy mountain?”