December 2010
See each thing in this entire world as a moment of time.
- Dogen
3:11 PM Dec 31st
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.
- Edward Abbey
11:00 AM Dec 31st
Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
- Raymond Carver
7:27 AM Dec 30th
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
9:02 AM Dec 29th
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
- D. T. Suzuki
8:52 PM Dec 28th
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
- C. S. Lewis
10:27 AM Dec 27th
beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.
- Vladimir Nabokov
9:57 PM Dec 26th
The iron bars seemed invisible to others, but I carried a cage around inside me.
- Edward Hirsch
9:29 AM Dec 26th
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
- Anne Sexton
7:26 PM Dec 25th
Everything is a loan that is given as a gift.
- Yaffa Leibowitz
9:24 AM Dec 24th
Appreciation is an excellent thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us, as well.
- Voltaire
8:00 AM Dec 22nd
We have no scar to show for happiness.
- Chuck Palahniuk
8:19 PM Dec 21st
Consolation: Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
- Czesław Miłosz
6:53 AM Dec 21st
If you think you're enlightened go spend a week with your family.
- Baba Ram Dass
9:18 AM Dec 19th
Prize this ecstasy, however senseless it may seem to men.
- Dostoevsky
4:05 PM Dec 18th
Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps.
- Victor Hugo
3:54 PM Dec 18th
We think we know, that is our tragedy; so we never discover.
- Anthony De Mello
11:30 AM Dec 17th
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.
- Carl Rogers
8:30 AM Dec 17th
It's a relief, frankly, that in Buddhism, there is no self to save.
- Darren Littlejohn
7:07 AM Dec 16th
Why should I be bitter
About someone who was
A complete stranger
Until a certain moment
In a day that has passed.
- Saigyo
12:51 PM Dec 15th
The way of forgiveness is the way of gratitude and astonishment. It lets the past become our teacher rather than our judge.
- John Claypool
7:00 AM Dec 15th
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
6:46 AM Dec 14th
If merely sitting were enough, every frog in the pond would be enlightened.
- Zen saying
6:47 AM Dec 13th
And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone.
- Anne Sexton
7:34 PM Dec 11th
Don't save your enormous creativity for "something better." Give it to this.
- Rob Brezsny
8:30 AM Dec 10th
Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?
- David M. Bader
7:00 AM Dec 9th
Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
- Robert Henri
6:35 AM Dec 8th
So we have been told that the mind that embraces all the ten directions does not stop anywhere.
- Hongzhi Zhengjue
7:00 AM Dec 7th
Walk on air against your better judgment.
- Seamus Heaney
6:47 AM Dec 6th
Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.
- Robin Morgan
2:34 PM Dec 5th
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms.
- Jorge Luis Borges
4:09 PM Dec 3rd
Who are you whom the world has disappointed?
- Henry David Thoreau
6:02 AM Dec 2nd
You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.
- Jorge Luis Borges
7:00 AM Dec 1st
- Dogen
3:11 PM Dec 31st
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.
- Edward Abbey
11:00 AM Dec 31st
Happiness. It comes on unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really, any early morning talk about it.
- Raymond Carver
7:27 AM Dec 30th
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
- Carlos Castaneda
9:02 AM Dec 29th
Enlightenment is like everyday consciousness but two inches above the ground.
- D. T. Suzuki
8:52 PM Dec 28th
Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.
- C. S. Lewis
10:27 AM Dec 27th
beauty always dies, the manner dies with the matter, the world dies with the individual.
- Vladimir Nabokov
9:57 PM Dec 26th
The iron bars seemed invisible to others, but I carried a cage around inside me.
- Edward Hirsch
9:29 AM Dec 26th
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
- Anne Sexton
7:26 PM Dec 25th
Everything is a loan that is given as a gift.
- Yaffa Leibowitz
9:24 AM Dec 24th
Appreciation is an excellent thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us, as well.
- Voltaire
8:00 AM Dec 22nd
We have no scar to show for happiness.
- Chuck Palahniuk
8:19 PM Dec 21st
Consolation: Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.
- Czesław Miłosz
6:53 AM Dec 21st
If you think you're enlightened go spend a week with your family.
- Baba Ram Dass
9:18 AM Dec 19th
Prize this ecstasy, however senseless it may seem to men.
- Dostoevsky
4:05 PM Dec 18th
Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps.
- Victor Hugo
3:54 PM Dec 18th
We think we know, that is our tragedy; so we never discover.
- Anthony De Mello
11:30 AM Dec 17th
What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.
- Carl Rogers
8:30 AM Dec 17th
It's a relief, frankly, that in Buddhism, there is no self to save.
- Darren Littlejohn
7:07 AM Dec 16th
Why should I be bitter
About someone who was
A complete stranger
Until a certain moment
In a day that has passed.
- Saigyo
12:51 PM Dec 15th
The way of forgiveness is the way of gratitude and astonishment. It lets the past become our teacher rather than our judge.
- John Claypool
7:00 AM Dec 15th
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
6:46 AM Dec 14th
If merely sitting were enough, every frog in the pond would be enlightened.
- Zen saying
6:47 AM Dec 13th
And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone.
- Anne Sexton
7:34 PM Dec 11th
Don't save your enormous creativity for "something better." Give it to this.
- Rob Brezsny
8:30 AM Dec 10th
Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?
- David M. Bader
7:00 AM Dec 9th
Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
- Robert Henri
6:35 AM Dec 8th
So we have been told that the mind that embraces all the ten directions does not stop anywhere.
- Hongzhi Zhengjue
7:00 AM Dec 7th
Walk on air against your better judgment.
- Seamus Heaney
6:47 AM Dec 6th
Sometimes I lose it but if I sit still and listen, it comes back, and then I think, How funny, this is what being alive is.
- Robin Morgan
2:34 PM Dec 5th
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms.
- Jorge Luis Borges
4:09 PM Dec 3rd
Who are you whom the world has disappointed?
- Henry David Thoreau
6:02 AM Dec 2nd
You have used up the years and they have used up you, and still, and still, you have not written the poem.
- Jorge Luis Borges
7:00 AM Dec 1st
