June 2015
The quintessential Japanese balance, I thought: to surrender all of yourself to an illusion, and yet somewhere, in some part of yourself, to know all the while that it is an illusion.
- Pico Iyer
8:00 AM June 29th
You and I are just swinging doors.
This kind of understanding is necessary.
- Shunryu Suzuki
7:29 AM June 29th
I live and die from one end of this line to the other.
- André Breton
6:54 PM June 28th
I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
9:00 AM June 28th
Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
- Maya Angelou
3:30 PM June 27th
What exactly is there in human existence that can lure you away from pleasure: peace of mind, a walk by the sea, moderation?
- Kapka Kassabova
12:00 PM June 27th
One can anyway only be shown something one knows already, needs already.
- Denise Levertov
1:30 PM June 26th
Don't get addicted to being human. This is only temporary.
- Robert Monroe
10:30 AM June 26th
Look what thoughts will do
Look what words will do
from nothing to the face
from nothing to the root of the tongue
from nothing to speaking of empty space
- Anne Waldman
7:00 PM June 25th
from nothing to the face
from nothing to the root of the tongue
from nothing to speaking of empty space
- Anne Waldman
7:00 PM June 25th
It begins with the root of the tongue
it begins with the root of the heart
there is a spinal cord of wind
singing & moaning in empty space
- Anne Waldman
7:00 PM June 25th
it begins with the root of the heart
there is a spinal cord of wind
singing & moaning in empty space
- Anne Waldman
7:00 PM June 25th
There are no mistakes. You might do it different next time, but that's because you did it this way this time.
- Edward Espe Brown
8:30 AM June 25th
- Edward Espe Brown
8:30 AM June 25th
Life is much smaller and more intimate and more interesting than we ever thought.
- Douglas Harding
7:00 AM June 24th
My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that
gives it meaning.
- Clarice Lispector
8:30 AM June 23rd
One day you'll doubt your movements,
you will shudder
at the accuracy of your sudden age.
You will ache for slow beauty
to save you from your quick, quick life.
- Kapka Kassabova
8:30 AM June 22nd
It's amazing how resilient people are, and how the things that didn't come true become, after a while, simply the way things are.
- Anna Quindlen
Yes, No, Or
- a day, a life, slips through them,
taking off the third skin,
taking off the fourth.
- Jane Hirshfield
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
- Iris Murdoch
To be understood is not a human right. Even to understand oneself is not a human right.
- Iris Murdoch
We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.
- Anna Quindlen
Words strain,
Crack and sometimes break, under the burden,
Under the tension, slip, slide, perish,
Will not stay still.
- T. S. Eliot
The capacity to open ourselves up to one another is as huge as we dare to make it.
- Anna Quindlen
Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself.
- Patrick Rothfuss
It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.
- Jeffrey Eugenides
Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can't afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.
- Robert Musil
Ideas emerge from edges and shadows to arrive in the light, and though that's where they may be seen by others, that's not where they're born.
- Rebecca Solnit
Still for a moment it all recedes.
The backyard potatoes swell quietly
buried beneath their canopy of leaves.
The wind rubs its hands through the trees.
- Ellen Bass
One is reminded, at a level deeper than all words, how making a living and making a life sometimes point in opposite directions.
- Pico Iyer
Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being, then do it, without hesitation. But with kindness. With humility. Without hypocrisy.
- Marcus Aurelius
Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?
- Wallace Stegner
None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could almost define the things that mattered as the ones that came as suddenly as thunder.
- Pico Iyer
7:30 AM June 11th
- Pico Iyer
7:30 AM June 11th
Everything that happens is the last time it happens. We see things only as their own fatal brightness and there is nothing after that brightness.
- Sarah Manguso
8:30 AM June 10th
The ability to tell your own story, in words or images, is already a victory, already a revolt.
- Rebecca Solnit
11:30 AM June 9th
I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
- L. M. Montgomery
Remember you are ancient,
that once you walked out of the sea
and in the trees became another thing.
Know you can again.
- Susan Elbe
I'm the idea of the human imagination, which, when you think about it, is the only thing we can really be certain ISN'T imaginary.
- Alan Moore
8:30 PM June 7th
I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
- Naomi Shihab Nye
9:30 AM June 6th
Almost. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.
- Joan Bauer
12:00 PM June 5th
Life forms a surface that acts as if it could not be otherwise, but under its skin things are pounding and pulsing.
- Robert Musil
8:00 AM June 5th
There may be more to learn by climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.
- Richard Nelson
They can be like a sun, words.
They can do for the heart
what light can
for a field.
- St. John of the Cross
8:00 AM June 4th
The essential experience: the body sensing itself existing; the mind going its own way.
- Charles Simic
Everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. We build ourselves out of that story.
- Patrick Rothfuss
Charisma is easy; presence and self-remembering are terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.
- Morris Berman
So far, so good. The brilliant days and nights are
breathless in their hurry. We follow, you and I.
- Lisel Mueller
