May 2022

The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are.
 - G. K. Chesterton
2:00 PM May 31st

The Truth is not hidden from us. We are hiding from it.
 - Reb Yerachmiel ben Yisrael
12:00 PM May 28th

Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.
 - David Foster Wallace
11:30 AM May 23rd

In the presence of some people we inevitably depart from ourselves: we are inaccurate, we say things we do not feel, and talk nonsense. When we get home we are conscious that we have made fools of ourselves. Never go near these people.
 - Mark Rutherford
12:00 PM May 22nd

Or at least it is possible to make the case that for some time now life has seemed to become more senseless, even demented, with each passing year.
 - Walker Percy
12:00 PM May 20th

There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.
 - Isaac Bashevis Singer
8:00 AM May 19th

Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.
 - Kathleen Norris
12:00 PM May 18th

See yourself in others,
Then whom can you hurt?
What harm can you do?
 - Jack Kornfield
12:00 PM May 17th

I think when we get those moments where things are just too hard to comprehend,
there is a whole different world.
 - C. S. Lewis
8:30 AM May 16th

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
2:30 PM May 13th

Anyhow, it is a world that is full of lies, and we shall make no mistake if we make up our minds that what we hear is really not at all strange and unusual but merely exaggerated in the telling.
 - Yoshida Kenkō
8:30 AM May 12th

If self is a location, so is love:
Bearings taken, markings, cardinal points,
Options, obstinacies, dug heels, and distance,
Here and there and now and then, a stance.
 - Seamus Heaney
8:00 AM May 11th

And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone.
 - Anne Sexton
11:45 AM May 10th

How can we ever lose interest in life?
Spring has come again
And cherry trees bloom in the mountains.
 - Ryokan
8:00 AM May 7th

Is the cosmos
laughing at us? No. It's saying

improvise. Everywhere you look
there's beauty, and it's rimed
with death. If you find injustice
you'll find humans, and this means
that if you listen, you'll find love.
 - Jan Zwicky
1:30 PM May 5th

Based on my experience of life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further, to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.
 - George Saunders
9:00 AM May 4th

I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration
Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze
Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration,
Faces of people streaming across my gaze.
 - D. H. Lawrence
8:30 AM May 3rd