January 2019
By the time you get to the end of this sentence, your brain will have physically changed.
- Joshua Foer
8:00 AM Jan 30th
I choose January with its chill lessons of patience and despair
- Linda Pastan
8:30 AM Jan 28th
And then the kicker is this: in passing from the real to the imagined, in following that trail, you learn that both sides have a little of the other in each
- Rick Bass
9:30 AM Jan 27th
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down,
we don't move, today is today, always is today.
- Octavio Paz
9:00 AM Jan 26th
That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?"
- Mary Oliver
8:30 AM Jan 25th
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
- Maya Angelou
7:30 AM Jan 23rd
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
- Jeanette Winterson
1:00 PM Jan 22nd
The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.
- Virginia Woolf
| memory's landscape
9:00 AM Jan 22nd
Indeed, man's question should not be how to escape the perpetual struggle but rather what form to give it, at what level to wage it.
- Adin Steinsaltz
9:00 AM Jan 20th
Sometimes it's okay. Sometimes it's not one desperate act after another. Sometimes we hear the music that is always there.
- Terrance Keenan
10:00 AM Jan 19th
it will always remain a mystery
you have to go home now and live with,
sometimes with the ease of music,
and sometimes in silence,
for the rest of your life.
- Mary Oliver
9:00 AM Jan 18th
There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave.
- Dilgo Khyentse
8:00 AM Jan 16th
Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.
- Anne Michaels
7:00 AM Jan 15th
We exist as phantom, monster, miracle, each a theme park all one's own, and mainly unknowable in the end, not just to others, but to ourselves as well.
- Diane Ackerman
8:00 AM Jan 14th
It's always better to be deep rather than shallow.
- L. A. Paul
8:30 AM Jan 13th
Reality is the last nostalgia. We look upon it with hopeful sweetness, yet we grip it with the iron tenacity of desperation brought on by the terrifying accident of life.
- Terrance Keenan
8:30 AM Jan 11th
Zen master Shunryu Suzuki was once asked, "What do you think of all of us crazy Zen students?"
He replied, "I think you're all deeply enlightened. Until you open your mouths."
8:30 AM Jan 10th
What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in.
- Thaddeus Golas
9:00 AM Jan 9th
- Joshua Foer
8:00 AM Jan 30th
I choose January with its chill lessons of patience and despair
- Linda Pastan
8:30 AM Jan 28th
And then the kicker is this: in passing from the real to the imagined, in following that trail, you learn that both sides have a little of the other in each
- Rick Bass
9:30 AM Jan 27th
Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down,
we don't move, today is today, always is today.
- Octavio Paz
9:00 AM Jan 26th
That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?"
- Mary Oliver
8:30 AM Jan 25th
If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.
- Maya Angelou
7:30 AM Jan 23rd
They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?
- Jeanette Winterson
1:00 PM Jan 22nd
The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.
- Virginia Woolf
| memory's landscape
9:00 AM Jan 22nd
Indeed, man's question should not be how to escape the perpetual struggle but rather what form to give it, at what level to wage it.
- Adin Steinsaltz
9:00 AM Jan 20th
Sometimes it's okay. Sometimes it's not one desperate act after another. Sometimes we hear the music that is always there.
- Terrance Keenan
10:00 AM Jan 19th
it will always remain a mystery
you have to go home now and live with,
sometimes with the ease of music,
and sometimes in silence,
for the rest of your life.
- Mary Oliver
9:00 AM Jan 18th
There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave.
- Dilgo Khyentse
8:00 AM Jan 16th
Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.
- Anne Michaels
7:00 AM Jan 15th
We exist as phantom, monster, miracle, each a theme park all one's own, and mainly unknowable in the end, not just to others, but to ourselves as well.
- Diane Ackerman
8:00 AM Jan 14th
It's always better to be deep rather than shallow.
- L. A. Paul
8:30 AM Jan 13th
Reality is the last nostalgia. We look upon it with hopeful sweetness, yet we grip it with the iron tenacity of desperation brought on by the terrifying accident of life.
- Terrance Keenan
8:30 AM Jan 11th
Zen master Shunryu Suzuki was once asked, "What do you think of all of us crazy Zen students?"
He replied, "I think you're all deeply enlightened. Until you open your mouths."
8:30 AM Jan 10th
What you deny to others will be denied to you, for the plain reason that you are always legislating for yourself; all your words and actions define the world you want to live in.
- Thaddeus Golas
9:00 AM Jan 9th
This life is a test - it is only a test.
If it had been an actual life, you would have received further
instructions on where to go and what to do.
- Jack Kornfield
7:30 AM Jan 8th
If it had been an actual life, you would have received further
instructions on where to go and what to do.
- Jack Kornfield
7:30 AM Jan 8th
Life is completely still. It is without excitement. It is always still, indifferent to whether or not your life is dramatic.
- Dave Joko Haselwood
8:30 AM Jan 7th
The winter street is a salt cave. The snow has stopped falling and it's very cold. The cold is spectacular, penetrating. The street has been silenced, a theatre of whiteness, drifts like frozen waves. Crystals glisten under the streetlights.
- Anne Michaels
4:00 PM Jan 6th
The winters will drive you crazy until you learn to get out into them.
- Parker Palmer
9:00 AM Jan 6th
René Descartes walks into a bar and has a drink. The bartender asks him, "Would you like another?" Descartes pauses and says, "I think not," and promptly disappears. The bartender is enlightened.
- author unknown
10:00 PM Jan 5th
Remember that just to have the eyes of an artist, that can be enough, the ear of a poet, that can be enough. - Michele Linfante
8:30 AM Jan 5th
The sane human being is satisfied that the best he/she can do at any given moment is the best he/she can do at any given moment.
Such sanity is, unfortunately, rare.
- David Bayles
7:30 AM Jan 4th
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point: 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
8:00 AM Jan 3rd
I escape to the same places and same words.
Cold breeze from the sea, the ice-dragon's licking
the back of my neck while the sun glares.
- Tomas Tranströmer
8:00 AM Jan 2nd
Put your day down.
Come to the bank in the snow
wearing grace and pain,
the silence at the end of sentences.
- Terrance Keenan
4:30 PM Jan 1st
Each year it happens this way, each year
Something dead comes back and lifts up its arms,
puts down its luggage
And says - in the same costume, down-at-heels, badly sewn -
I bring you good news from the other world.
- Charles Wright
8:30 AM Jan 1st
