Tuesday

June 2009

Echo
To mountains at dusk:
What are you?

What are you are you . . .
- Ko Un
8:24 PM June 30th


Traveler, there is no path,
Only a wake in the sea.
- Antonio Machado
9:00 AM June 29th


The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.
- Jeanette Winterson
11:48 AM June 28th


I was run over by the truth one day. Ever since the accident I've walked this way.
- Adrian Mitchell
7:45 AM June 26th


Living changes us, in ways we cannot predict, for the better and the worse.
- Lebbeus Woods
7:52 AM June 25th


It is always uncomfortable to know that you have to live with other people's delusions about you, of one kind or another.
- Thomas Merton
8:35 AM June 24th


You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play.
- Jeanette Winterson
7:54 AM June 23rd


What I count on
is a white birch
that stands
where no human language
is ever heard.
- Yosano Akiko
7:41 AM June 22nd


Swifter than hail
Lighter than a feather
A vague sorrow
Crossed your mind.
- Yosano Akiko
9:22 AM June 21st


The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.
- R. H. Blyth
2:26 PM June 20th


Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.
- Brenda Ueland
9:00 AM June 19th


I have no doubt whatever that most people live, whether physically, intellectually, or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
- William James
8:28 AM June 18th


O for a life of sensations rather than thoughts.
- John Keats
8:41 PM June 17th


You must promise me that you will not be satisfied with minor achievements in whatever you do.
- Etan
8:32 AM June 17th


For most of us, there is only the unattended Moment, the moment in and out of time, The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight.
- T S Eliot
8:08 AM June 16th


I am well satisfied that, being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.
- Thomas Hobbes
6:52 PM June 15th


Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?
- Marian Wright Edelman
10:21 AM June 14th


The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same seashore.
- Albert Camus
9:46 AM June 13th


eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.
- John Muir
2:33 PM June 12th


Life is like an hourglass. Consciousness is the sand.
- Deng Ming-Dao
8:06 AM June 11th


You cannot express anything unless you invent how to express it.
- Brian / five branch tree
8:25 PM June 10th


The song is higher than the struggle.
- Adrienne Rich
8:08 AM June 10th


Progress is an elastic prison which stretches on without ever setting us free.
- Ortega Y Gasset
7:56 AM June 9th


How do you know when your own life verges on decadence?
- Deng Ming-Dao
3:06 PM June 8th


If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
- David Carradine
7:11 PM June 7th


A sentinel owl regards me unblinkingly,
And beyond, alpine forests form a cadence
To a distant moon.
- Deng Ming-Dao
8:47 AM June 6th


Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or relationship to anything about them - undiffused, separate, and rigidly alone like marbles of polished stone, touching but separate.
- John Muir
8:19 PM June 4th


Our mind is solicited simultaneously from too many sides: it has to be spoken to quickly as it passes by.
- Lamennais
7:41 AM June 3rd


the effort to shut out anxiety is itself an anxiety and a very intense one
- Northrup Frye
7:06 AM June 2nd