Cold Mountain cold Ice freezes rock Mountains are green Snow is white Sun shines bright Every thing melt Every thing warm Warms old man

Cold Mountain Son Forever not change I live alone Beyond life death

Though face and form alter with the years, I hold fast to the pearl of my mind.

I took a walk, Suddenly I stood still, filled with the realization that I had no body or mind. All I could see was one great illuminating Whole - omnipresent, perfect, lucid and serene.

If your house has Cold Mountain poems They are better for you than sutras Hang them up where you can see them Read them and read them again

Men ask the way to Cold Mountain, Cold Mountain: there's no through trail.

Tiers of mountains Cold wind feet Not need fan Ice cold through Moon shines bright Mist covers everything Sit all alone One old man

I brewed potions in a vain search for life everlasting, I read books, I sang songs of history, And today I've come home to Cold Mountain To pillow my head on the stream and wash my ears.

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.

Luck is manufactured in the factory of GOD only. So no reason for believing only GOD and not LUCK.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Most child actors were lucky enough to get the part in the first place.

There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.

There's something desirable about anything you're used to as opposed to something you're not.

And a flower, doesn't even know it's own beauty it's entire life. Sad, huh?

Make yourself worthy of money and money will make itself worthy of you.

The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.