Via Special_Trille on LJ, from a Metafilter discussion on the best way to make tea, this quote:
"Tea is properly made if, when drunk, the world feels a little warmer, a little better, and a little less immediately threatening. It is well made if you involuntarily sigh after taking a sip. The steps and methods needed to achieve this transcendence, are, like all religious experiences, widely varied, of intense personal significance and more than slightly barbaric to one initiated in a different tradition."
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"Tea is properly made if, when drunk, the world feels a little warmer, a little better, and a little less immediately threatening. It is well made if you involuntarily sigh after taking a sip. The steps and methods needed to achieve this transcendence, are, like all religious experiences, widely varied, of intense personal significance and more than slightly barbaric to one initiated in a different tradition."
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