Tuesday

November 2011

We are very cruelly trapped between what we would like to be and what we actually are.
- James Baldwin
6:47 AM Nov 30th


One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
- Gustave Flaubert
7:19 PM Nov 28th


At dusk come to my hut -
The crickets will serenade you,
and I will introduce you to the moonlit woods.
- Ryokan Taigu
5:34 PM Nov 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
8:19 AM Nov 27th


Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
- Albert Camus
10:35 AM Nov 25th


And when you found it
Weren't you lifted up?
Didn't you become lighter?
- Gregory Orr
9:22 AM Nov 24th


Think only what is right there, what is right under your nose to do. It's such a simple thing - that's why people can't do it.
- Henry Miller
10:05 AM Nov 23rd


He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
- Joseph Joubert
6:54 AM Nov 22nd


A strange creature, the human being; groping in the dark with an intelligent look.
- Kodo Sawaki
7:15 AM Nov 21st


Not getting the thing you want may sometimes take you closer to the thing that you are.
- Loreena McKennitt
4:40 PM Nov 20th



The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
- Henry Miller
7:09 PM Nov 19th


An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.
- Gustave Flaubert
10:14 PM Nov 18th


There are so many things we've been brought up to believe that it takes you an awfully long time to realize that they aren't you.
- Edward Gorey
7:00 AM Nov 17th


You represent an unknown world that begs you to bring it to voice.
- John O'Donohue
7:50 AM Nov 16th



Everyone is homeless. It is a mistake if you think that you have a fixed home.
- Kodo Sawaki
7:44 AM Nov 15th


Thought is the greatest of pleasures - pleasure itself is only imagination - have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?
- Gustave Flaubert
11:45 AM Nov 14th


If we don't take care, we will be wasting our time trying to catch human delusions.
- Kodo Sawaki
6:45 AM Nov 14th


learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon.
- Ikkyu
10:00 AM Nov 13th


If you don't climb a thousand crags, how can you learn all things are empty?
- Yuan Mei
10:22 AM Nov 12th


It's not true that life is one damn thing after another, it's one damn thing over and over.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
7:33 AM Nov 11th


I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.
- Edward Gorey
8:15 AM Nov 10th


Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does.
- Edward Gorey
7:17 AM | Nov 9th


Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
- Haruki Murakami
6:45 AM Nov 8th


Don't try to understand! It's enough if you do not misunderstand.
- Nisargadatta Maharaj
7:35 AM Nov 7th


Tomorrow, we shall have to invent, once more, the reality of this world.
- Octavio Paz
8:21 AM Nov 6th


The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
- Wallace Stevens
7:13 PM Nov 5th


The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.
- Ray Bradbury
7:29 AM Nov 3rd


If it rains, let it rain; if the wind blows, let it blow.
- Ikkyu
6:36 AM Nov 2nd


Man is a centaur, a tangle of flesh and mind, divine inspiration and dust.
- Primo Levi
6:36 AM Nov 1st