February 2023

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

 - Anthony de Mello
12:15 PM Feb 28th

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence. When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. You get to take yourself oh so very seriously.
 - Tom Robbins
8:08 AM Feb 27th

The way through the world
Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
 - Wallace Stevens
9:30 AM Feb 26th

The most significant gifts are the ones most easily overlooked. Small, everyday blessings: woods, health, music, laughter, memories, books, family, friends, second chances, warm fireplaces, and all the footprints scattered throughout our days.
 - Sue Monk Kidd
3:00 PM Feb 24th

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.
 - Edward Abbey
12:30 PM Feb 23rd

At the back of our brains, so to speak, there was a forgotten blaze or burst of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life was to dig for this submerged sunrise of wonder.
 - G. K. Chesterton
8:30 AM Feb 21st

From this the poem springs: that we live in a place
That is not our own and, much more, not ourselves
And hard it is in spite of blazoned days.
 - Wallace Stevens
10:45 AM Feb 20th

In my room, the world is beyond my understanding;
But when I walk I see that it consists of three or four
Hills and a cloud.
 - Wallace Stevens
12:30 PM Feb 18th

We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
 - Leonard Cohen
8:00 AM Feb 15th

Every day priests minutely
examine the Dharma
and endlessly chant
complicated sutras.
They should learn
how to read the love letters
sent by the wind and rain,
the snow and moon.
 - Ikkyu
2:45 PM Feb 14th

We are in this fairyland on sufferance; it is not for us to quarrel with the conditions under which we enjoy this wild vision of the world.
 - G. K. Chesterton
8:30 AM Feb 14th

From the time you wake up until the moment you go to bed it’s all a lie, all a sham and a swindle. Everybody knows it, and everybody collaborates in the perpetuation of the hoax.
 - Henry Miller
8:30 AM Feb 9th

If the devil tells you something is too fearful to look at, look at it. If he says something is too terrible to hear, hear it. If you think some truth unbearable, bear it.
 - G. K. Chesterton
10:00 AM Feb 8th

There is a certain solid use in fools. It is not so much that they rush in where angels fear to tread, but rather that they let out what devils intend to do.
 - G. K. Chesterton
9:00 AM Feb 7th

Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying.
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson
8:00 AM Feb 6th

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.
 - G. K. Chesterton
12:30 PM Feb 2nd

February, month of despair,
with a skewered heart in the centre.
I think dire thoughts, and lust for French fries
with a splash of vinegar.
 - Margaret Atwood
1:30 PM Feb 1st