Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

R. H. Blyth, fully Reginald Horace Blyth

English Author and Devotee of Japanese Culture

"What is the most important thing that we possess? Nothing is so precious that we cannot afford to throw it away."

"When he reared his head and neighed from his deep chest, like deep wind-bells resounding, she seemed to hear the echoes of another, darker, more spacious, more dangerous, more splendid world than ours, that was beyond her, and there she wanted to go."

"Zen means doing ordinary things willingly and cheerfully."