There is a vast potential,
latent within human beings,
that remains undiscovered
because of the limitations
placed on consciousness
by habitual preoccupations.

The recommendation
that all cravings be relinquished
does not mean that
detachment itself is a goal;
it is a means of breaking through
self–imposed restrictions
and opening up this
inexhaustible treasure of potential.

Musō Soseki (1275 CE-1351 CE), Musō Soseki was a Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and teacher, and a calligraphist, poet and garden designer. The most famous monk of his time, he is also known as Musō Kokushi (夢窓国師) ("national Zen teacher"), an honorific conferred on him by Emperor Go-Daigo.