May 2019
The nature of mind is like empty space, like the sky, which at present is filled with clouds and fog and mist and periodically has all kinds of activity such as hailstorms, snowstorms, rainstorms and thunder and lightning.
- Kalu Rinpoche
6:00 AM May 31st
A man who is seeking for realization is not only going around searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose all the time, but also were he not actually looking through them he would not be able to see what he is looking for!
- Wei Wu Wei
7:00 AM May 30th
May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be forever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2:15 PM May 29th
I sat on the front steps alone, waiting for a sense of ease and peace to settle in the air around me.
- Don DeLillo
8:00 AM May 28th
To make alive what is quiet and asleep in your existence. To do that work. To find yourself. Inside yourself. That is art to me.
- Nayyirah Waheed
2:15 PM May 24th
There are so many things you would never think to tell anyone. And I believe they may be the things that mean most to you, and that even your own child would have to know in order to know you well at all.
- Marilynne Robinson
8:00 AM May 23rd
i want to say to all the creatives who have been taught to believe who you are is not enough for this world, taught that a life of art will amount to nothing, know that who we are, and what we do is life. when we create, we are creating the world. remember this
- Nayyirah Waheed
5:00 PM May 22nd
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
- John Green
8:30 AM May 21st
The world is just water and light, a slide show through which your spirit glides.
- Fanny Howe
10:15 AM May 18th
To be alone is one of life's greatest delights, thinking one's own thoughts, doing one's own little jobs, seeing the world beyond and feeling oneself uninterrupted in the rooted connection with the centre of all things.
- D. H. Lawrence
8:00 AM May 16th
Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.
- Warsan Shire
8:00 AM May 15th
Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?
- Clarice Lispector
7:00 AM May 14th
Everything matters: how we vote, how we tie our shoelaces, how we respond to the faintest whisper of a thought. And nothing matters, because (look!) it's already gone. When we understand this, we're home free.
- Stephen Mitchell
7:45 AM May 13th
You have a life - just imagine that! You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe still another.
- Mary Oliver
8:00 AM May 12th
The woods
from brook to where
the top of the hill looks
over the fog, send up
not one bird.
So absolute, it is
no other than
happiness itself, a breathing
too quiet to hear.
- Denise Levertov
7:00 PM May 10th
There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there, I promise. It's up to you to find them.
- Chuck Palahniuk
1:00 PM May 10th
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future; Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. - Thich Nhat Hahn
8:30 AM May 9th
We have all seized the white perimeter as our own
and reached for a pen if only to show
we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages;
we pressed a thought into the wayside,
planted an impression along the verge.
- Billy Collins
8:00 AM May 8th
- Kalu Rinpoche
6:00 AM May 31st
A man who is seeking for realization is not only going around searching for his spectacles without realizing that they are on his nose all the time, but also were he not actually looking through them he would not be able to see what he is looking for!
- Wei Wu Wei
7:00 AM May 30th
May your sky always be clear, may your dear smile always be bright and happy, and may you be forever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart.
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
2:15 PM May 29th
I sat on the front steps alone, waiting for a sense of ease and peace to settle in the air around me.
- Don DeLillo
8:00 AM May 28th
To make alive what is quiet and asleep in your existence. To do that work. To find yourself. Inside yourself. That is art to me.
- Nayyirah Waheed
2:15 PM May 24th
There are so many things you would never think to tell anyone. And I believe they may be the things that mean most to you, and that even your own child would have to know in order to know you well at all.
- Marilynne Robinson
8:00 AM May 23rd
i want to say to all the creatives who have been taught to believe who you are is not enough for this world, taught that a life of art will amount to nothing, know that who we are, and what we do is life. when we create, we are creating the world. remember this
- Nayyirah Waheed
5:00 PM May 22nd
You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
- John Green
8:30 AM May 21st
The world is just water and light, a slide show through which your spirit glides.
- Fanny Howe
10:15 AM May 18th
To be alone is one of life's greatest delights, thinking one's own thoughts, doing one's own little jobs, seeing the world beyond and feeling oneself uninterrupted in the rooted connection with the centre of all things.
- D. H. Lawrence
8:00 AM May 16th
Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.
- Warsan Shire
8:00 AM May 15th
Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?
- Clarice Lispector
7:00 AM May 14th
Everything matters: how we vote, how we tie our shoelaces, how we respond to the faintest whisper of a thought. And nothing matters, because (look!) it's already gone. When we understand this, we're home free.
- Stephen Mitchell
7:45 AM May 13th
You have a life - just imagine that! You have this day, and maybe another, and maybe still another.
- Mary Oliver
8:00 AM May 12th
The woods
from brook to where
the top of the hill looks
over the fog, send up
not one bird.
So absolute, it is
no other than
happiness itself, a breathing
too quiet to hear.
- Denise Levertov
7:00 PM May 10th
There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there, I promise. It's up to you to find them.
- Chuck Palahniuk
1:00 PM May 10th
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future; Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life. - Thich Nhat Hahn
8:30 AM May 9th
We have all seized the white perimeter as our own
and reached for a pen if only to show
we did not just laze in an armchair turning pages;
we pressed a thought into the wayside,
planted an impression along the verge.
- Billy Collins
8:00 AM May 8th
Even morning asks is there wilderness
that calms. If so, why. What is it exactly.
What in the sky that cools the land it stirs.
- Bruce Bond
8:30 AM May 7th
Thinking in mythological terms helps to put you in accord with the inevitables of this vale of tears.
- Joseph Campbell
8:00 AM May 6th
The only thing that can interrupt happiness is an untrue thought. It's like a cloud hiding the sun. When we investigate it, it dissolves. Wisdom is the art of cloudlessness.
- Stephen Mitchell
7:30 AM May 3rd
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
- Vladimir Nabokov
6:00 PM May 2nd
I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.
- Anne Lamott
8:00 AM May 2nd
