May 2009

Learning: To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
- Czeslaw Milosz
3:55 PM May 31st


How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
- Annie Dillard
7:58 AM May 31st


We rarely have the occasion to make grand gestures.
- Deng Ming-Dao
8:25 PM May 30th


Why are there no immortals any more?
- Deng Ming-Dao
8:50 AM May 30th


We should not surrender our right to decide the course of our lives to vague propitiations of the unknown.
- Ming-Dao
6:19 AM May 29th


If I break down the walls, I will be surrounded by the garden.
- Deng Ming-Dao
7:04 AM May 28th


The fact is, no matter what kind of person you are, you will attract something to yourself.
- Deng Ming-Dao
7:00 AM May 27th


Fog makes the world a painting obscure.
- Deng Ming-Dao
11:47 AM May 25th


Who we really are is how things are going.
- Peter Hershock
11:34 AM May 24th


that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know this.
- Martin Heidegger
2:17 PM May 23rd


No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.
- John Muir
7:32 AM May 22nd


To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.
- Theodor W. Adorno
3:26 PM May 21st


Hilly village lanes,
Whitewashed sunlit walls.
Cerulean sea.
The laughter of children.
- Deng Ming-Dao
7:22 AM May 21st


We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
- Agnes De Mille
7:10 AM May 20th


As you go the way of life, you will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.
- Native American Indians
7:15 AM May 18th


Today is the ideal moment between yesterday and tomorrow.
- Deng Ming-Dao
11:47 AM May 17th


Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds or the music of water written in river-lines?
- John Muirabout
5:47 PM May 16th


The city disappears street by street as you enter it.
- Ian Seed
6:23 PM May 15th


Imagination and fiction make up more than three-quarters of our real life.
- Simone Weil
8:10 AM May 15th


in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
- Kahlil Gibran
7:02 AM May 14th


The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle: You don't see something as it is. You see it as you see it.
10:38 AM May 13th


How very noble!
One who finds no satori
in the lightning-flash
- Basho
9:03 PM May 12th


Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
- Lao Tsu
7:56 AM May 12th


Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking.
- Jelaluddin Rumi
7:13 AM May 11th


but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
- Diane Ackerman
8:26 PM May 10th



It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery . . .
- Diane Ackerman
8:25 PM May 10th



Life is like stepping onto a boat that is about to sail out to sea and sink.
- Shunryu Suzuki
7:44 PM May 9th


nevertheless the same prayer
merely refracted through the different mediums of other thoughts
- Marcel Proust
7:31 AM May 8th


Let us dream of evanescence, and linger in the beautiful foolishness of things.
- Kakuzo Okakura
7:13 AM May 7th


Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.
- John Muir
10:12 AM May 6th


Is it possible that nothing real or important has yet been seen or known or said?
- Rainer Maria Rilke
7:09 AM May 5th


Real poetry is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
- Basho
6:48 AM May 4th


The morning stars still sing together, and the world, not yet half made, becomes more beautiful every day.
- John Muir
1:39 PM May 3rd


When you get there, there isn't any there there.
- Gertrude Stein
8:12 AM May 2nd


I never get lost because I don't know where I'm going.
- Ikkyu
7:03 AM May 1st

April 2009

The self that gets lost in thoughts is also a thought.
- Freddie Yam
7:13 AM Apr 30th


We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
- William Butler Yeats
7:38 AM Apr 29th


The cruelest thing that you can do to people is to make them ashamed of their complexity.
- Leon Wieseltier
11:29 AM Apr 28th


I would not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
- Thoreau
10:50 AM Apr 27th


Once you become familiar with the design of fate's illusions your ink-well will contain all of life and death.
- Hsu Yun
12:18 PM Apr 26th


Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken
5:40 PM Apr 25th


Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions.
- Albert Einstein
11:00 AM Apr 24th


Relationships are complex because they are part real, part imaginary.
- Martin F. Terman
3:34 PM Apr 23rd


When one tugs on a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
- John Muir
7:18 AM Apr 22nd


May my silences become more accurate.
- Theodore Roethke
8:45 PM Apr 21st


Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
- Thoreau
11:48 AM Apr 21st


The richness of your life comes down to the richness of your thoughts.
- Earl R. Smith
7:26 AM Apr 20th


Spring rain : telling stories, a straw coat and umbrella walk past
- Yosa Buson
5:58 PM Apr 19th


To live only for some future goal is shallow.
- Robert Pirsig
12:12 PM Apr 18th


If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down.
- Robert Pirsig
12:11 PM Apr 18th


It is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.
- Kakuzo Okakura
9:40 AM Apr 17th


I am appalled to see how much of the change I thought I had undergone lately was only imaginary.
- C.S. Lewis
8:28 AM Apr 16th


Someone's terribly inevitable life story, maybe mine.
- William Stafford
7:34 AM Apr 15th


Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea.
- Doug Hall
10:58 AM Apr 14th


There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you.
- Seamus Heaney
7:18 AM Apr 13th


The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.
- G. K. Chesterton
12:11 PM Apr 12th


Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see, only the way you see it.
- Thaddeus Golas
10:59 AM Apr 11th


I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I'm doing.
- John Cage
4:30 PM Apr 10th


I am trying to check my habits of seeing, to counter them for the sake of greater freshness.
- John Cage
4:29 PM Apr 10th


Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
- Annie Dillard
3:09 PM Apr 9th


A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.
- Alfred Korzybski
7:26 PM Apr 8th


A psychotic is someone who has just found out what's going on.
- William S. Burroughs
7:10 AM Apr 8th


First, do no harm, there are things you could say that might. Focus.
- Jacob McArthur Mooney
7:14 AM Apr 7th


Vanity keeps prodding us
to lift ourselves skyward
or to make deep and useless
tunnels underground.
- Pablo Neruda
7:26 AM Apr 6th


True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
- François Duc de La Rochefoucauld
9:06 AM Apr 5th


Words weigh more which, carefully measured, Say that the world exists.
- Fernando Pessoa
8:11 PM Apr 4th


If you don't use your own imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you.
- Ronald Sukenick
5:57 AM Apr 3rd


The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
6:05 AM Apr 1st

March 2009

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
- Kurt Vonnegut
1:49 PM Mar 31st


It's best not to have obsessions. Just don't be contrived. Simply be ordinary.
- Lin-chi
7:34 AM Mar 30th


The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought.
- Chogyam Trungpa
12:54 PM Mar 29th


The bone of his own forehead obstructs his way; he knocks himself bloody against his own forehead.
- Kafka
8:09 AM Mar 28th


In the midst of this world
we stroll along the roof of hell
gawking at flowers
- Issa
9:28 AM Mar 27th


"If I could stop talking, completely, cease talking for a year, I might begin to get well," he muttered.
- Franz Wright
8:23 AM Mar 26th


We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- Oscar Wilde
3:28 PM Mar 25th


The whole world is you. Yet you keep thinking there is something else.
- Hsueh-Feng
8:49 PM Mar 24th


Boredom: the desire for desires.
- Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy
9:00 AM Mar 24th


My entire soul is a cry, and all my work is a commentary on that cry.
- Nikos Kazantzakis
8:33 AM Mar 23rd


Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
- Alan Watts
9:39 AM Mar 22nd


Without friends no one would choose to live.
- Aristotle
1:12 PM Mar 21st


Love is / invisible, and what cannot be seen cannot be stifled.
- Bruce Whiteman
8:11 PM Mar 20th


I should have been a pair of ragged claws Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.
- T.S. Eliot
7:17 AM Mar 20th


You aren't where you think you are. You are anywhere and everywhere, but here.
- So Daiho
10:55 AM Mar 19th


In winter, the seven stars walk upon a crystal forest.
- Soen Nakagawa
7:15 AM Mar 18th


One kind word can warm three winter months.
- Japanese proverb
7:56 PM Mar 17th


Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.
- Christopher Morley
9:23 AM Mar 17th


Quite often a flash of enlightenment will give you this message: Go back to where you started and learn to love it more.
- Thaddeus Golas
7:29 AM Mar 16th


It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
9:10 AM Mar 15th


How can the Here-and-Now be then or there?
- Doug Webb
2:01 PM Mar 14th


We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth here and now, nine-tenths a history lesson.
- Graham Swift
7:29 AM Mar 13th


If this day in the lifetime of a hundred years is lost, will you ever touch it with your hands again?
- Jack Kornfield
7:21 AM Mar 12th


One can make a day of any size
- John Muir
7:29 AM Mar 11th


Your great mistake is to act the drama as if you were alone.
- David Whyte
7:31 AM Mar 10th


Do you realize how many of the things we say are just echoes?
- Doris Lessing
11:16 AM Mar 9th


Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride.
- Philip Roth
1:10 PM Mar 8th


may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days and out of that love, remake a world.
- Ray Bradbury
3:06 PM Mar 5th


How deeper than elsewhere the dusk is in your own backyard.
- Charles Wright
7:47 PM Mar 4th