August 2011
What seems to be happening at the moment is never the full story of what is really going on.
- Buckminster Fuller
7:31 AM August 31st
People will love you, people will hate you, and none of it will have anything to do with you.
- Abraham Hicks
11:02 AM August 30th
Smoke
gets in your
I.
- Douglas Imbrogno
6:39 AM August 30th
I think I'll stay up late with a few bandits of my choice and resist good advice.
- Stephen Dunn
7:15 PM August 29th
It's strange that words are so inadequate.
- T. S. Eliot
8:34 AM August 28th
How weightless
words are when nothing will do.
- Philip Levine
8:25 AM August 28th
I've had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. A heart is to be spent.
- Stephen Dunn
7:34 PM August 27th
It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.
- Christian Morgenstern
1:00 PM August 27th
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
- Iris Murdoch
7:06 AM August 26th
We are unusual and tragic and alive.
- Dave Eggers
6:53 AM August 25th
Some people say there is Mind. I say there is no mind, but never mind.
- Abbot of the Indosan Nipponji Temple
6:50 AM August 24th
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
- Leonard Cohen
6:31 AM August 23rd
Beware the writer who always encloses the word "reality" in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you.
- Edward Abbey
6:48 AM August 22nd
Unlike people who read novels, he never saw himself as a character in a work of art.
- Jorge Luis Borges
3:31 PM August 21st
The reader became the book; and the summer night was like the conscious being of the book.
- Wallace Stevens
7:35 PM August 20th
If the eye were a complete animal, sight would be its soul.
- Aristotle
7:40 AM August 19th
Thinking.
Good thoughts, bad thoughts.
Mental weeds.
- Samaneri Sudhanna
7:04 AM August 18th
We are reading the story of our lives. As though we were in it. As though we had written it.
- Mark Strand
7:08 AM August 17th
Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that has never been broken.
- Wallace Stevens
8:25 AM August 16th
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
6:46 AM August 15th
As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
- Pablo Neruda
8:13 PM August 13th
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
- Juan Ramón Jiménez
3:01 PM August 13th
Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.
- Henry James
6:45 PM August 12th
I hope there's an animal somewhere that nobody has ever seen. And I hope nobody ever sees it.
- Wendell Berry
6:46 AM August 12th
Even as you lean over this page, late and alone, it shines: even now in the moment before it disappears.
- Mark Strand
7:00 PM August 11th
The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
- John Muir
8:25 AM August 11th
Where, precisely, is the location of a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?
- Edward Abbey
8:56 AM August 1oth
The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.
- Jane Hirshfield
8:32 AM August 9th
The world is babbled to pieces after the divorce of things from their names.
- Wendell Berry
12:45 PM August 8th
There is, it seems to me, every reason why we should attempt to cry out to one another and comfort one another.
- Thomas Merton
9:10 AM August 7th
Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.
- Pablo Neruda
8:59 AM August 5th
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
- Leonard Cohen
3:08 PM August 3rd
It is wise to let this weather of feeling pass; it is on its way elsewhere.
- John O'Donohue
8:08 AM August 3rd
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
- Mark Strand
7:33 PM August 2nd
You live your life as if it's real . . .
- Leonard Cohen
8:21 AM August 2nd
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
- Wallace Stevens
6:49 PM August 1st
- Buckminster Fuller
7:31 AM August 31st
People will love you, people will hate you, and none of it will have anything to do with you.
- Abraham Hicks
11:02 AM August 30th
Smoke
gets in your
I.
- Douglas Imbrogno
6:39 AM August 30th
I think I'll stay up late with a few bandits of my choice and resist good advice.
- Stephen Dunn
7:15 PM August 29th
It's strange that words are so inadequate.
- T. S. Eliot
8:34 AM August 28th
How weightless
words are when nothing will do.
- Philip Levine
8:25 AM August 28th
I've had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. A heart is to be spent.
- Stephen Dunn
7:34 PM August 27th
It is one of the oddest things in the world that you can read a page or more and think of something utterly different.
- Christian Morgenstern
1:00 PM August 27th
Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.
- Iris Murdoch
7:06 AM August 26th
We are unusual and tragic and alive.
- Dave Eggers
6:53 AM August 25th
Some people say there is Mind. I say there is no mind, but never mind.
- Abbot of the Indosan Nipponji Temple
6:50 AM August 24th
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
- Leonard Cohen
6:31 AM August 23rd
Beware the writer who always encloses the word "reality" in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you.
- Edward Abbey
6:48 AM August 22nd
Unlike people who read novels, he never saw himself as a character in a work of art.
- Jorge Luis Borges
3:31 PM August 21st
The reader became the book; and the summer night was like the conscious being of the book.
- Wallace Stevens
7:35 PM August 20th
If the eye were a complete animal, sight would be its soul.
- Aristotle
7:40 AM August 19th
Thinking.
Good thoughts, bad thoughts.
Mental weeds.
- Samaneri Sudhanna
7:04 AM August 18th
We are reading the story of our lives. As though we were in it. As though we had written it.
- Mark Strand
7:08 AM August 17th
Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that has never been broken.
- Wallace Stevens
8:25 AM August 16th
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
6:46 AM August 15th
As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
- Pablo Neruda
8:13 PM August 13th
If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
- Juan Ramón Jiménez
3:01 PM August 13th
Try to be one of those on whom nothing is lost.
- Henry James
6:45 PM August 12th
I hope there's an animal somewhere that nobody has ever seen. And I hope nobody ever sees it.
- Wendell Berry
6:46 AM August 12th
Even as you lean over this page, late and alone, it shines: even now in the moment before it disappears.
- Mark Strand
7:00 PM August 11th
The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.
- John Muir
8:25 AM August 11th
Where, precisely, is the location of a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else?
- Edward Abbey
8:56 AM August 1oth
The untranslatable thought must be the most precise.
- Jane Hirshfield
8:32 AM August 9th
The world is babbled to pieces after the divorce of things from their names.
- Wendell Berry
12:45 PM August 8th
There is, it seems to me, every reason why we should attempt to cry out to one another and comfort one another.
- Thomas Merton
9:10 AM August 7th
Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed.
- Pablo Neruda
8:59 AM August 5th
Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore.
- Leonard Cohen
3:08 PM August 3rd
It is wise to let this weather of feeling pass; it is on its way elsewhere.
- John O'Donohue
8:08 AM August 3rd
Ink runs from the corners of my mouth.
There is no happiness like mine.
I have been eating poetry.
- Mark Strand
7:33 PM August 2nd
You live your life as if it's real . . .
- Leonard Cohen
8:21 AM August 2nd
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
- Wallace Stevens
6:49 PM August 1st
