August 2018
Morning. Vast. Imprecision. Fog has covered everything in gray absolute. This has lasted.
Doubt looms over the mind.
- Etel Adnan
7:30 AM August 31st
That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on.
- Leila Sales
8:00 AM August 30th
Mathematics leads you to a very scary conclusion: since there is only one real world, whereas the number of potential virtual worlds is infinite, the probability that you happen to inhabit the sole real world is almost zero.
- Yuval Noah Harari
8:00 AM August 29th
I'm in love with everyone I've ever met in one way or another. I'm just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.
- Edie Sedgwick
7:30 AM August 27th
Walk around feeling like a leaf. Know you could tumble any second. Then decide what to do with your time. - Naomi Shihab Nye
8:00 AM August 25th
It is in the middle of misery
that so much becomes clear.
The one who says nothing good
came of this,
is not yet listening.
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés
8:00 AM August 24th
we are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
- Marcel Proust
8:30 AM August 23rd
I've had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. A heart is to be spent. - Stephen Dunn
7:30 PM August 22nd
A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is.
- Yuval Noah Harari
8:00 AM August 22nd
And to live only once -
What if that's not enough?
- Gregory Orr
8:00 AM August 18th
If Kindle is upgraded with face recognition and biometric sensors, it can know what made you laugh, what made you sad and what made you angry. Soon, books will read you while you are reading them.
- Yuval Noah Harari
1:00 PM August 17th
If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?
- Gregory Orr
8:30 AM August 17th
Don't ask for signs, and then ignore the signs.
- Sarah Durham Wilson
8:30 AM August 16th
A darker storm stands over the world. It puts its mouth to our soul and blows to get a tone. We are afraid the storm will blow us empty.
- Tomas Tranströmer
8:00 AM August 15th
the signals we give - yes or no, or maybe - should be clear: the darkness around us is deep. - William Stafford
7:30 AM August 13th
The imperative to be kind to one another may seem obvious, but part of being human means that both the right thing and the wrong thing are forever at arms reach.
- Stephen H. Segal
8:30 AM August 12th
Even rest should be creative, so that time doesn't flow around us, but through us.
- Anna Kamieńska
8:00 AM August 11th
Listen privately, silently to the voices that rise up
from the pages of books and from your own heart.
- Wendell Berry
9:00 AM August 10th
I want to study The book of the world: Every vanishing page.
- Gregory Orr
8:30 AM August 9th
Body like a mountain
Breath like the wind
Mind like the sky
- Tibetan Meditation Instruction
8:30 AM August 8th
I have to tell you what I've learned,
that I know now
what happens to the dreamers.
They don't feel it when they change.
One day
they wake, they dress, they are old.
- Louise Glück
11:30 AM August 7th
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules, and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.
- Kurt Vonnegut
9:00 AM August 4th
When we do something, we are done by something. This doing and being done to is life, and when conscious willingness is added to do and done to, there is Zen.
- R. H. Blyth
9:00 AM August 3rd
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
10:10 AM August 2nd
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
- Italo Calvino
7:00 PM August 1st
He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality.
Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.
- Jeanette Winterson
8:30 AM August 1st
7:30 AM August 31st
That's the problem with life. You never get enough time to stare at your ceiling and try to figure out what's going on.
- Leila Sales
8:00 AM August 30th
Mathematics leads you to a very scary conclusion: since there is only one real world, whereas the number of potential virtual worlds is infinite, the probability that you happen to inhabit the sole real world is almost zero.
- Yuval Noah Harari
8:00 AM August 29th
I'm in love with everyone I've ever met in one way or another. I'm just a crazy, unhinged disaster of a human being.
- Edie Sedgwick
7:30 AM August 27th
Walk around feeling like a leaf. Know you could tumble any second. Then decide what to do with your time. - Naomi Shihab Nye
8:00 AM August 25th
It is in the middle of misery
that so much becomes clear.
The one who says nothing good
came of this,
is not yet listening.
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés
8:00 AM August 24th
we are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things.
- Marcel Proust
8:30 AM August 23rd
I've had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. A heart is to be spent. - Stephen Dunn
7:30 PM August 22nd
A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is.
- Yuval Noah Harari
8:00 AM August 22nd
And to live only once -
What if that's not enough?
- Gregory Orr
8:00 AM August 18th
If Kindle is upgraded with face recognition and biometric sensors, it can know what made you laugh, what made you sad and what made you angry. Soon, books will read you while you are reading them.
- Yuval Noah Harari
1:00 PM August 17th
If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?
- Gregory Orr
8:30 AM August 17th
Don't ask for signs, and then ignore the signs.
- Sarah Durham Wilson
8:30 AM August 16th
A darker storm stands over the world. It puts its mouth to our soul and blows to get a tone. We are afraid the storm will blow us empty.
- Tomas Tranströmer
8:00 AM August 15th
the signals we give - yes or no, or maybe - should be clear: the darkness around us is deep. - William Stafford
7:30 AM August 13th
The imperative to be kind to one another may seem obvious, but part of being human means that both the right thing and the wrong thing are forever at arms reach.
- Stephen H. Segal
8:30 AM August 12th
Even rest should be creative, so that time doesn't flow around us, but through us.
- Anna Kamieńska
8:00 AM August 11th
Listen privately, silently to the voices that rise up
from the pages of books and from your own heart.
- Wendell Berry
9:00 AM August 10th
I want to study The book of the world: Every vanishing page.
- Gregory Orr
8:30 AM August 9th
Body like a mountain
Breath like the wind
Mind like the sky
- Tibetan Meditation Instruction
8:30 AM August 8th
I have to tell you what I've learned,
that I know now
what happens to the dreamers.
They don't feel it when they change.
One day
they wake, they dress, they are old.
- Louise Glück
11:30 AM August 7th
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules, and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.
- Kurt Vonnegut
9:00 AM August 4th
When we do something, we are done by something. This doing and being done to is life, and when conscious willingness is added to do and done to, there is Zen.
- R. H. Blyth
9:00 AM August 3rd
To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
10:10 AM August 2nd
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
- Italo Calvino
7:00 PM August 1st
He wrote on a piece of paper with his pencil. Psychosis: out of touch with reality.
Since then, I have been trying to find out what reality is, so that I can touch it.
- Jeanette Winterson
8:30 AM August 1st
