Famous quotes containing the words sitting and/or buddha:
“There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The vast silence of Buddha overtakes
and overrules the oncoming roar
of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues;
it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)