Thursday

August 2019

Mostly, matters of any consequence are three-sided, or four-sided, or polygonal; and the trotting round a polygon is severe work for people any way stiff in their opinions.
- John Ruskin
10:00 AM Aug 31st


I have my mother's mouth and my father's eyes; on my face they are still together.
 - Warsan Shire
8:30 AM Aug 30th


A cicada shell;
it sang itself
utterly away.
- Bashō
cafe inevitable
8:00 AM Aug 27th


Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.
 - Alice Miller
8:30 AM Aug 24th


Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything; you are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
 - Clark Moustakas
7:30 AM Aug 22nd


How the mind conducts itself. It all depends on that.
 - Marcus Aurelius
8:00 AM Aug 21st


You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.
 - Terence McKenna
7:30 AM Aug 20th


Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine.
 - E. M. Forster
8:00 AM Aug 19th


Stop and feel where you are.
 - Adyashanti
thrive
5:50 PM Aug 16th


Seeking awareness of perfection in the mind is called living the inner life.
 - Agnes Martin
8:08 AM Aug 16th


Time takes life away
and gives us memory, gold with flame,
black with embers.
 - Adam Zagajewski

8:00 AM Aug 13th


What's the world for you if you can't make it up the way you want it?
 - Toni Morrison
7:00 AM August 12th


Wife, daughters, friends.
This is for you.
Enlightenment is
Mistake after mistake.
 - Ikkyu

7:30 AM Aug 9th


In general, lives seem to veer abruptly from one thing to another, to jostle and bump, to squirm. A person heads in one direction, turns sharply in mid-course, stalls, drifts, starts up again. Nothing is ever known, and inevitably we come to a place quite different from the one we set out for.
 - Paul Auster
8:00 AM Aug 8th


Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.
 - Toni Morrison
8:00 AM Aug 7th


A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.
 - William S. Burroughs
8:00 AM Aug 6th


In other words: It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not. Or, more bluntly: Wherever I am not is the place where I am myself. Or else, taking the bull by the horns: Anywhere out of the world.
 - Paul Auster
11:00 AM Aug 2nd


I have been very happy lately, just wallowing in it selfishly, knowing it will not last very long, which is all the more reason to enjoy it now.
 - Tennessee Williams
7:30 AM Aug 1st