5th May, 2008: Speaking of Tea
Regardless of when or where they were born, some of the world’s greatest thinkers have held tea in high regard. People such as the English novelist Henry Fielding who gave us the character of Tom Thumb. The Chinese philosopher T’ien Yiheng. Vietnamese Zen monk Thich Nhat Hahn. Or Russian poet Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin. Their own words summed up their sentiments toward tea.
If Fielding were alive today, he might prefer to enjoy his tea while watching a soap opera. Or that’s the sense one might get from reading this quote from his novel Love in Several Masques: “Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.”
Yiheng considered tea a form of escape. “Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world,” he said.
Thich Nhat Hahn used tea in practicing mindfulness, a trend which has gained renewed interest today. He advised, “Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.”
Lastly, there is Alexander Puskin who described tea as a delicious luxury with the words, “Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.”
Find more tea quotes to whet your appetite, like these published earlier on the Bigelow blog.
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