James Norwood PrattThinkers

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.

Tea is quiet and it takes a quiet palate to appreciate something that calls so little attention to itself.

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility. Respectfully preparing tea and partaking of it mindfully create heart-to-heart conviviality, a way to go beyond this world and enter a realm apart. No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering agent more benign.

Tea is quiet and our thirst for tea is never far from our craving for beauty.