Thursday

March 2018

The airy sky has taken its place leaning against the wall.
It is like a prayer to what is empty.
And what is empty turns its face to us
and whispers:
"I am not empty, I am open."
 - Tomas Tranströmer
8:30 AM March 31st
A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That's what I like about coincidence.
 - Vladimir Nabokov
2:00 PM March 30th
We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.
 - Ursula K. Le Guin
7:30 AM March 29th
I don't know. We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark? 
 - Ursula K. Le Guin
11:30 AM March 28th
Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful, and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
 - Desmond Tutu
7:00 AM March 27th
A man woke up and found that he'd been robbed. More disconcerting was the realization that everything had been replaced by an exact replica. Unnerved by this weird situation he called his neighbor. The neighbor, looking at him rather carefully, asked, "Do I know you?"
 - Alan Fletcher
8:00 AM March 26th
A poet is a poet for such a very tiny bit of his life; for the rest he is a human being, one of whose responsibilities is to know and feel, as much as he can, all that is moving around and within him.
 - Dylan Thomas
7:00 AM March 23rd
The road to wisdom?
Well, it's plain and simple to express:
Err
and err
and err again
but less
and less
and less.
 - Piet Hein
8:00 AM March 22nd
The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.
 - Tom Robbins
7:45 AM March 21st
Standing on a cliff,
Among the pines and oaks;
Spring has come
Clothed in mist.
 - Ryōkan
8:00 AM March 20th
The very fact that knowledge is itself the basis for civilization points directly to openness as the way to overcome the present crisis.
 - Niels Bohr
8:30 AM March 19th
If everything is sacred,
surprising,
then you are fine
the way you are.
 - Robin Heerens Lysne
7:15 PM March 18th


yes.
yes i do.
have the right to be this lush and neverending.

 - Nayyirah Waheed
you are marvelous

 the gods wait to delight
in you.
 - Charles Bukowski
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
 - Stephen Hawking
8:00 AM March 14th
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick: every time a stick is thrown, you run after it. Instead, be like a lion who, rather than chasing after the stick, turns to face the thrower. One only throws a stick at a lion once.
 - Milarepa
8:30 AM March 13th
If you never want to see the face of hell, when you come home from work every night, dance with your kitchen towel, and if you're worried about waking up your family, take off your shoes.
 - Rabbi Nachman of Breslov
8:30 AM March 12th
The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.
 - R. H. Blyth
9:30 AM March 11th
You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.
 - Harold S. Kushner
9:00 AM March 10th
Admire the world for never ending on you as you would admire an opponent, without taking your eyes off him, or walking away.
 - Annie Dillard
7:00 AM March 9th
Whatever anyone does,
anyone says, in the
past, now, everything, let
it bounce off the rock
           of yr gladness (yr mirror)
 - Jack Kerouac
8:00 AM March 8th
Everything seems simple until you think about it.
 - Audrey Niffenegger
8:00 AM March 7th


Hallelujah that in spite of it all, there is love, there is singing, nature, laughing, mercy.
 - Anne Lamott
I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
 - Jack Kerouac
I laughed, and climbed the mountain,
leaning on my staff.

 How I'd love to be a master
of the blue sky's art:

 see how many sprigs of snow-white cloud
he's brushed in so far today.
 - Yuan Mei
It's quite illusory to hang on to a private, hidden, truer self apart from how you actually are, even if therapy promotes this grand illusion and profits from it. Instead, the realism of Heraclitus: You are how you are.
 - James Hillman
2:00 PM March 1st
Sometimes the one thing missing from your life
is you.
 - Anthony Paul Moo-Young
8:30 AM March 1st