September 2009
The intelligence has nothing to discover, it has only to clear the ground. It is only good for servile tasks.
- Simone Weil
6:33 AM Sept 29th
One of the great delusions is the I. There is no subject; what exists is a series of mental states.
- Jorge Luis Borges
6:54 AM Sept 28th
I forget the only way out is to want a way out.
- Stephen Parr
11:00 AM Sept 25th
To be mindful, you have to believe that life is worth paying attention to.
- Gary R. McClain
6:47 AM Sept 25th
Sometimes you wonder how much you know
And then you wake up and you know, but not how much.
- John Ashbery
7:05 AM Sept 24th
We all lead three lives, an actual one, an imaginary one, and the one we are not aware of.
- Thomas Bernhard
7:15 AM Sept 23rd
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon
7:05 AM Sept 22nd
Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
- Mary Oliver
6:49 AM Sept 21st
whose fiery thoughts unseal the sky
whose desires, like its dimensions, can bear no human scale or story
- Young Smith
3:39 PM Sept 20th
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
- Kenneth Koch
9:35 AM Sept 20th
Whatever is thought of is seen by an interior sight, by some more clearly, by others more obscurely.
- Swedenborg
2:03 PM Sept 19th
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
- Japanese proverb
10:19 PM Sept 18th
Though we should soar into the heavens, though we should sink into the abyss, we never go out of ourselves; it is always our own thought that we perceive.
- Emerson
2:10 PM Sept 18th
For an artist to be interesting to us he must have been interesting to himself.
- Robert Henri
3:19 PM Sept 17th
Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.
- Konstantin Stanislavsky
7:51 AM Sept 16th
Poets aren't very useful
Because they aren't consumeful or produceful
- Ogden Nash
7:01 AM Sept 16th
I still felt scattered, like the golden light rippling on the underside of a bridge.
- Jame Lever
1:49 PM Sept 15th
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
12:14 PM Sept 15th
Nobody is not a thinker. We all think all of the time, consciously or unconsciously, always and already.
- David Miller
7:00 AM Sept 14th
We are the theater, the spectators, the actors, the story.
- Jorge Luis Borges
5:43 PM Sept 13th
You balance, you turn, and out there around you | loom parts of a life you can become.
- William Stafford
1:00 PM Sept 13th
Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.
- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
4:05 PM Sept 12th
There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.
- Will Self
10:42 AM Sept 12th
Bad things happen when you get hands, dolphin.
- Franz Wright
7:15 AM Sept 11th
Eventually I can put it into words; but I'm saying the first step, the first flash of insight, is non-verbal.
- David Bohm
6:49 AM Sept 10th
How is it that I didn't spend my whole life being
happy, loving other human beings' faces.
- Franz Wright
2:12 PM Sept 9th
Every day we have around 6,000 thoughts; most of them are repeats.
- Patrick Holford
7:30 AM Sept 9th
The longest journey you will ever take is the 18 inches from your head to your heart.
- Andrew Bennett
1:25 PM Sept 8th
Make it your task for today not to try to achieve anything, but to quietly watch yourself being moved about by inner forces.
- Vernon Howard
9:52 AM Sept 5th
I say this because spontaneity, creation, cannot be planned.
- Eden Maxwell
9:48 AM Sept 5th
how everything lives, shifting | from one bright vision to another
- Mary Oliver
9:41 AM Sept 5th
What if we could look at language as matter and move inside words, the way particle physicists break into atoms with the force of their own energy and light?
- Meredith Stricker
2:50 PM Sept 4th
I am becoming aware that with words ambiguous feelings enter into my life.
- Henri Nouwen
1:01 PM Sept 4th
Just do good, don't worry about the road ahead.
- Wansong
6:45 AM Sept 3rd
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
7:07 PM Sept 2nd
The intellectuals: in God's menagerie, are they necessary?
- Lesek Kolakowski
7:07 AM Sept 2nd
What actually happened was something absurdly simple and unspectacular: just for the moment I stopped thinking.
- Douglas Harding
7:08 AM Sept 1st
- Simone Weil
6:33 AM Sept 29th
One of the great delusions is the I. There is no subject; what exists is a series of mental states.
- Jorge Luis Borges
6:54 AM Sept 28th
I forget the only way out is to want a way out.
- Stephen Parr
11:00 AM Sept 25th
To be mindful, you have to believe that life is worth paying attention to.
- Gary R. McClain
6:47 AM Sept 25th
Sometimes you wonder how much you know
And then you wake up and you know, but not how much.
- John Ashbery
7:05 AM Sept 24th
We all lead three lives, an actual one, an imaginary one, and the one we are not aware of.
- Thomas Bernhard
7:15 AM Sept 23rd
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon
7:05 AM Sept 22nd
Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
- Mary Oliver
6:49 AM Sept 21st
whose fiery thoughts unseal the sky
whose desires, like its dimensions, can bear no human scale or story
- Young Smith
3:39 PM Sept 20th
It seems everything is so full of possibilities one can hardly take it all in.
- Kenneth Koch
9:35 AM Sept 20th
Whatever is thought of is seen by an interior sight, by some more clearly, by others more obscurely.
- Swedenborg
2:03 PM Sept 19th
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
- Japanese proverb
10:19 PM Sept 18th
Though we should soar into the heavens, though we should sink into the abyss, we never go out of ourselves; it is always our own thought that we perceive.
- Emerson
2:10 PM Sept 18th
For an artist to be interesting to us he must have been interesting to himself.
- Robert Henri
3:19 PM Sept 17th
Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.
- Konstantin Stanislavsky
7:51 AM Sept 16th
Poets aren't very useful
Because they aren't consumeful or produceful
- Ogden Nash
7:01 AM Sept 16th
I still felt scattered, like the golden light rippling on the underside of a bridge.
- Jame Lever
1:49 PM Sept 15th
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
- Henry David Thoreau
12:14 PM Sept 15th
Nobody is not a thinker. We all think all of the time, consciously or unconsciously, always and already.
- David Miller
7:00 AM Sept 14th
We are the theater, the spectators, the actors, the story.
- Jorge Luis Borges
5:43 PM Sept 13th
You balance, you turn, and out there around you | loom parts of a life you can become.
- William Stafford
1:00 PM Sept 13th
Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.
- Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
4:05 PM Sept 12th
There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor.
- Will Self
10:42 AM Sept 12th
Bad things happen when you get hands, dolphin.
- Franz Wright
7:15 AM Sept 11th
Eventually I can put it into words; but I'm saying the first step, the first flash of insight, is non-verbal.
- David Bohm
6:49 AM Sept 10th
How is it that I didn't spend my whole life being
happy, loving other human beings' faces.
- Franz Wright
2:12 PM Sept 9th
Every day we have around 6,000 thoughts; most of them are repeats.
- Patrick Holford
7:30 AM Sept 9th
The longest journey you will ever take is the 18 inches from your head to your heart.
- Andrew Bennett
1:25 PM Sept 8th
Make it your task for today not to try to achieve anything, but to quietly watch yourself being moved about by inner forces.
- Vernon Howard
9:52 AM Sept 5th
I say this because spontaneity, creation, cannot be planned.
- Eden Maxwell
9:48 AM Sept 5th
how everything lives, shifting | from one bright vision to another
- Mary Oliver
9:41 AM Sept 5th
What if we could look at language as matter and move inside words, the way particle physicists break into atoms with the force of their own energy and light?
- Meredith Stricker
2:50 PM Sept 4th
I am becoming aware that with words ambiguous feelings enter into my life.
- Henri Nouwen
1:01 PM Sept 4th
Just do good, don't worry about the road ahead.
- Wansong
6:45 AM Sept 3rd
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
- Henry David Thoreau
7:07 PM Sept 2nd
The intellectuals: in God's menagerie, are they necessary?
- Lesek Kolakowski
7:07 AM Sept 2nd
What actually happened was something absurdly simple and unspectacular: just for the moment I stopped thinking.
- Douglas Harding
7:08 AM Sept 1st
