Quotes from Chio Jen

The first bowl washed the cobwebs from my mind — The whole world seemed to sparkle. A second cleansed my spirit Like purifying showers of rain, A third and I was one of the Immortals — What need now for austerities To purge our human sorrows? Worldly people, by going in for wine, Sadly deceive themselves. For now I know the Way of Tea is real.