January 2022

Whoever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe
that I do not want it. Now I understand
why the old poets of China went so far and high
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
 - Mary Oliver
12:00 PM Jan 28th

On the old pond
Snow falls on the mandarin ducks
This evening.
 - Masaoka Shiki
4:30 PM Jan 26th

But if you don't write of things deep in your own heart,
What's the use of churning out so many words?
 - Ryokan
12:00 PM Jan 25th

All of us, all of us, all of us trying to save our immortal souls, some ways seemingly more round about and mysterious than others.
 - Raymond Carver
1:00 PM Jan 23rd

I am getting incredibly high on a single, astounding fact: that it's always sunny above the clouds. Always. That every day on earth - every day I have ever had - was secretly sunny, after all.
 - Caitlin Moran
12:00 PM Jan 21st

I think it is time to face yourself again.
Then again, it is always time.
 - Stonepeace
1:15 PM Jan 20th

Just as the highest and the lowest notes are equally inaudible, so perhaps, is the greatest sense and the greatest nonsense equally unintelligible.
 - Alan Watts
12:45 PM Jan 19th

All the trouble starts when people forget they're human.
 - Oliver Sacks
11:00 AM Jan 16th

When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an illusory feeling, because the truth is quite the reverse. You are the whole works, all that there is, and always was, and always has been, and always will be.
 - Alan Watts
12:00 PM Jan 14th

The greatest danger, that of losing one's own self, may pass off quietly as if it were nothing; every other loss, that of an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc., is sure to be noticed.
 - Soren Kierkegaard
1:00 PM Jan 13th

Statisticians report that television is watched over six hours a day in the average American household. Actually I have never seen an average American household. Except on TV.
- David Foster Wallace

1:12 PM Jan 12th

It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not.
 - Wei Wu Wei
12:00 PM Jan 11th

In real life we don't know what's going to happen next.
 - Sam Shepard
12:30 PM Jan 10th

One day Joshu was sweeping the ground when a monk asked him, "You are such a wise and holy master; tell me how it is that dust ever accumulates in your yard?"

Said the master, "It comes from outside."
- D. T. Suzuki

9:00 AM Jan 9th

Life happens too fast for you to ever think about it.
If you could just persuade people of this,
but they insist on amassing information.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

12:30 PM Jan 7th

People quickly forget evil because they still haven't created a language to describe it so the world refuses to carry the burden, preferring to forget.
 - Semezdin Mehmedinović
11:00 AM Jan 6th

This isn't champagne anymore. We went through the champagne a long time ago. This is serious stuff. The days of champagne are long gone.
 - Sam Shepard
1:00 PM Jan 4th