March 2019
Under the trees,
welcoming spring.
Things take care of themselves.
Filling the eye,
blue, blue mountains
in all directions.
- Gesshu Soko
9:36 AM March 31st
Peace of mind and heart arrives
when we accept what is:
having been born into this strange life
we must accept
the wasted gamble of our days
- Charles Bukowski
7:00 AM March 29th
welcoming spring.
Things take care of themselves.
Filling the eye,
blue, blue mountains
in all directions.
- Gesshu Soko
9:36 AM March 31st
Peace of mind and heart arrives
when we accept what is:
having been born into this strange life
we must accept
the wasted gamble of our days
- Charles Bukowski
7:00 AM March 29th
There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.
- Philip K. Dick
7:30 AM March 28th
You're spending your life without renewing it. You've got to be amused, properly healthily amused.
- D. H. Lawrence
7:30 AM March 27th
Go on, get deeper, go deeper, and it will become good. Find your level. This is not yet you.
- Anais Nin
7:00 AM March 26th
There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too.
- Margaret Atwood
7:30 AM March 25th
Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between real days.
- Sarah Manguso
5:30 PM March 24th
So much that is mysterious and important
is happening out there this morning.
- Raymond Carver
7:30 AM March 22nd
Savor your food, make each of your days a delight, bathe and anoint yourself, wear bright clothes that are sparkling clean, let music and dancing fill your house, love the child who holds you by the hand, and give your wife pleasure in your embrace.
- Stephen Mitchell
8:00 AM March 21st
Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.
- Matsuo BashÅ
11:00 AM March 20th
This year on, forever,
it's all gravy for me now -
now spring arrives
- Kobayashi Issa
7:30 AM March 20th
We have to try to make sense. We have to make time for artful analysis, which is the way we clear a space for the possibility of sanity.
- David Dark
7:30 AM March 19th
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.
- Henry David Thoreau
8:00 AM March 18th
May you always have walls for the winds
a roof for the rain
tea beside the fire
laughter to cheer you
those you love near you
and all your heart might desire.
- an Irish Blessing
8:00 AM March 17th
There's a whisper of revolution whenever people really speak to one another and really listen.
- David Dark
8:00 AM March 15th
Finally I am coming to the conclusion
that my highest ambition is to be what I already am.
- Thomas Merton
8:00 AM March 14th
Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal.
Can't you see that everything is stooping and hiding a face? If we could only get round in front.
- G. K. Chesterton
11:00 AM March 13th
Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but 'steal' some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self.
- Albert Camus
8:00 AM March 12th
Do you find coming to terms with the mindless tedium of it all presents an interesting challenge?
- Douglas Adams
9:00 AM March 11th
It's your solemn duty to learn how to enjoy this thing.
- Alan Watts
7:00 AM March 8th
Since I am convinced That Reality is in no way Real, How am I to admit That dreams are dreams? - Saigo Hoshi
7:30 AM March 7th
Dear self, please say the sun.
The sun sets.
Say the moon,
the moon rises.
All these years
don't bring it an inch closer,
The idle mind knows not what it wants.
- Quintus Ennius
8:00 AM March 4th
Your job is to find out what the world is trying to be.
- William Stafford
7:00 AM March 1st
