June 2010

The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.
- Annie Dillard
7:38 AM June 30th


Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.
- Eugène Ionesco
12:34 PM June 29th


I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer.
- Violette Leduc
9:02 AM June 29th


Maybe, what believing impossible things allows us to do is dismantle the words altogether, and get back to the essentially ineffable experience behind it all.
- Tim Boucher
8:27 AM | June 28th


The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is there's no ground.
- Chogyam Trungpa
12:59 PM | June 27th


This phantasm
of falling petals vanishes into
moon and flowers
- Basho
8:48 PM June 26th


I used to think that the years would go by in order, that you get older one year at a time. But it's not like that. It happens overnight.
- Haruki Murakami
7:43 AM | June 25th


There are twelve hours in the day, and above fifty in the night.
- Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
7:26 PM June 24th


People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
- Ken Kesey
9:03 AM June 24th


It's not about you.
- Garr Reynolds
7:49 AM June 23rd


Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
- Susan Sontag
3:30 PM | June 21st


The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
- Anthony J. D' Angelo
3:00 PM June 21st


I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.
- Haruki Murakami
9:17 PM June 19th


The sky is no longer out there, it is right on the edge of the space you are in.
- James Turrell
8:47 PM June 19th


The devil is an optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.
- Karl Kraus
6:06 PM June 18th


The work of art is a mental suspension, not a mental diversion.
- Mark Levy
12:07 PM June 18th


If you ask for help it comes, but not in any way you'd ever know.
- Gary Snyder
7:17 AM June 17th


The me sitting here and the image of me I have are out of sync.
- Haruki Murakami
3:26 pm June 16th


Despite your best efforts, people will get hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.
- Haruki Murakami
8:26 AM June 16th


The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.
- Carl Jung
3:17 PM | June 15th


It takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.
- C.S. Lewis
9:27 AM June 15th


How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
- Kurt Vonnegut
8:36 AM June 14th


Walking home, for a moment, you almost believe you could start again. And an intense love rushes to your heart, and hope.
- Franz Wright
7:17 PM June 11th


What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?
- John Green
8:04 AM June 11th


if you know life is supposed to be fun, you know more than almost anybody else knows.
- Esther Hicks
it's a lovely universe in us all
12:30 PM June 10th



Every individual is an exception to the rule.
- Carl Jung
9:24 AM June 10th


in the secret depth of the human soul where the shadows of other worlds pass like nameless and soundless ships
- Vladimir Nabokov
8:31 PM June 8th


just so you don't forget, what is right with you?
12:34 PM June 8th


There are enough zen centers. We need more zen corners.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
9:29 AM June 8th


The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last - the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
9:10 PM June 7th


To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon. - Mr. Vonnegut
- Kurt Vonnegut
7:42 PM June 6th


It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out.
- David Foster Wallace
9:04 June 5th


There is no vacuum in the heart. Certain demolitions take place, but on the condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
- Victor Hugo
7:50 AM June 4th


Sunset in the ethereal waves: I cannot tell if the day is ending, or the world, or if the secret of secrets is inside me again.
- Anna Akhmatova
8:16 PM | June 3rd


Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke?
- Annie Dillard
3:30 PM June 3rd


One can know worlds one has not experienced. Choose a response to life that has never been offered.
- Susan Sontag
9:54 AM June 3rd


To be wronged is nothing, unless you insist on remembering it.
- Anthony DeMello
Meditation - it's not what you think
8:45 AM June 2nd


You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
- Louise L. Hay
7:46 AM June 1st

May 2010

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
- Allen Ginsberg
9:42 PM May 31st


Perhaps some flash appears in the midst of love, of sorrow, or joy – a moment of Ah! Something is here, strange, wondrous.
- William Segal
1:35 PM May 31st


I sat on the front steps alone, waiting for a sense of ease and peace to settle in the air around me.
- Don DeLillo
10:45 AM May 31st


and the night,
marching at full pace,
of the coming dawn,
has no knowledge.
- Anna Akhmatova
10:00 PM May 30th


Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
- Terry Pratchett
3:25 PM May 30th


We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
- W. S. Merwin
1:52 PM May 30th


You invite things to happen. You open the door. You inhale. And if you inhale the chaos, you give to the chaos, the chaos gives back.
- Dave Eggers
3:52 PM | May 29th


In the gathering dusk,
only the sounds of the crickets.
- Daehaeng Kun Sunim
8:49 PM May 28th


So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute.
- Wendel Berry
9:18 AM May 28th


The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify.
- Frank Herbert
7:44 AM May 27th


If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?
- C. S. Lewis
12:49 PM May 26th


We wish we were otherwise and that is our hell, our resistance to life.
- Stephen Levine
8:02 AM May 25th


If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.
- C.S. Lewis
9:29 PM | May 24th


No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.
- C. S. Lewis
8:34 AM May 24th


Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
- Cormac McCarthy
6:46 PM May 23rd


The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.
- Victor Hugo
2:19 PM May 22nd


If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
- Victor Hugo
7:41 PM May 21st


No remorse. No if-onlys. Just the alertness of being.
- Peter Newton
7:30 AM May 21st


None of our yearnings has any reason to exist. Our attentive gaze is an absurdity allowed by our winged inertia.
- Fernando Pessoa
7:31 AM May 20th


Anybody can enter the Buddha's world, so few can step into the devil's.
- Ikkyu
6:43 AM May 20th


There are openings in our lives of which we know nothing.
- Jane Hirshfield
6:06 AM May 19th


Nearby, a bird bursts into unknown song.
Ryokan: too spellbound to leave.
- Theresa Williams
6:01 AM May 18th


Today awakens as if it does so just for me.
- Barbara A. Taylor
5:56 AM May 17th


Expectations, you've got to be aware of them.
- M. Night Shyamalan
7:02 PM May 16th


Get beyond love and grief: exist for the good of Man.
- Miyamoto Musashi
8:50 PM May 15th


Uproot your questions from their ground and the dangling roots will be seen.
- Frank Herbert
8:26 PM May 15th


a thousand cranes
in silver and gold . . .
still not enough
- Genie Nakano
12:32 PM May 14th


Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.
- Diane Ackerman
7:34 AM May 14th


I think it is time to face yourself again. Then again, it is always time.
- Stonepeace
6:05 AM May 13th


The importance of being present in the world and being a poet can occur exactly simultaneously.
- Brenda Hillman
7:21 PM May 12th


Those people who recognize that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists.
- Tom Robbins
7:39 AM May 12th


You are not the only voice that all things utter, nor is there eternal silence in the places where you cannot come.
- C.S. Lewis
7:00 PM May 11th


The reason you do not understand is just because you are taken away by random thoughts twenty-four hours a day.
- Foyan
7:31 AM May 11th


For as long as I can remember the alternate antics of the wounded child and the investigations of the ageless Universal played through me.
- Stephen Levine
6:09 AM May 11th


If we could not laugh, we could not bear to cry. If we could not cry, we could not bear to live.
- Japanese proverb
11:36 AM May 9th


To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.
- Manly P. Hall
12:37 PM May 8th


Things tend to awaken even through random communication
- Robert Creeley
9:46 AM May 8th


Really skillful people never get out of time, and are always deliberate, and never appear busy.
- Miyamoto Musashi
7:00 AM May 7th


We need to have mercy on ourselves.
- Stephen Levine
9:39 AM May 6th


Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
- Carl Sagan
6:47 AM May 6th


Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
- Mignon McLaughlin
6:59 AM May 5th


I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.
- Jeanette Winterson
10:12 AM May 4th


I love talking about nothing - it is the only thing I know anything about.
- Oscar Wilde
6:05 AM May 4th


The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.
- Henry Miller
10:01 AM May 2nd


There were those that would have wept to step barefoot into reality
- Wallace Stevens
5:13 PM May 1st