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Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among t

Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence…. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life. – Okakura Kakuzō

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Tea with us became more than an idealization of the form of drinking; it is a religion of the art of life…. Teaism was Taoism in disguise. – Okakura Kakuzō

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In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely…. Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius… – Okakura Kakuzō

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My kettle coughs a steamy tea. – Terri Guillemets

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The sounds of the tea being made invite the peach blossoms to peep in through the window. – Uson, quoted in Sasaki Sanmi, Sadô Saijiki

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Iced tea may not have as much wisdom as hot tea, but in the summer better a cool and refreshed dullard than a steamy sweat-drenched sage — leave sagacity to the autumn! – Terri Guillemets

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