February 2012
1 tag
“Complete consciousness is present to us at all times, every moment, but we...”
– Agnes Martin, with thanks to the Tao of Photography.
Feb 5th
38 notes
3 tags
This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal. —Dag Hammarskjöld With thanks to Whiskey River.
Feb 3rd
69 notes
1 tag
Feb 3rd
147 notes
2 tags
Feb 3rd
138 notes
1 tag
Feb 2nd
65 notes
1 tag
Feb 2nd
66 notes
2 tags
How to live - someone asked me this in a letter, someone I had wanted to ask that very thing. Again and as always, and as seen above there are no questions more urgent than the naive ones. —Wisława Szymborska from “The Turn of the Century,” translated by Joanna Maria Trzeciak. Thank you, Whiskey River.
Feb 2nd
42 notes
2 tags
“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
– Rumi (Thank you, theantidote, human-voices & thatkief)
Feb 2nd
718 notes
3 tags
Feb 2nd
64 notes
1 tag
Feb 2nd
43 notes
3 tags
Feb 1st
32 notes
2 tags
Feb 1st
19 notes
2 tags
“The paradox of the human condition is that nothing is so contrary to us as the...”
– Frithjof Schuon, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom. Courtesy of One Cosmos and Whiskey River.
Feb 1st
47 notes
3 tags
Feb 1st
45 notes
2 tags
Feb 1st
97 notes
January 2012
1 tag
Jan 31st
1,161 notes
1 tag
Jan 31st
68 notes
2 tags
Jan 31st
105 notes
3 tags
Jan 31st
134 notes
3 tags
Jan 31st
81 notes
1 tag
Jan 31st
160 notes
2 tags
Silence | Sounds: Blessing in the chaos →
To all that is chaotic in you, let there come silence. Let there be a calming of the clamoring, a stilling of the voices that have laid their claim on you, that have made their home in you, that go with you even to the holy places but will not let you rest, will not let you hear your life with wholeness or feel the grace that fashioned you. Let what distracts you cease. Let what divides you cease....
Jan 31st
50 notes
2 tags
“To deliver oneself up, hand oneself over, entrust oneself completely to the...”
– Thomas Merton is 97 today. (January 31, 1915 – December 10, 1968) was a 20th century Anglo-American Catholic writer. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist and student of comparative religion. In 1949, he was ordained to the priesthood and given the name...
Jan 31st
64 notes
Jan 31st
79 notes
2 tags
Jan 31st
57 notes
1 tag
“What is to give light must endure burning.”
– Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning. (via parabola-magazine)
Jan 31st
136 notes
1 tag
Jan 26th
52 notes
1 tag
Jan 26th
223 notes
3 tags
“When one first begins to work with conscious attention one discovers that the...”
– William Segal on Meditation. With many thanks to reclusland. 
Jan 26th
57 notes
3 tags
Jan 26th
1,896 notes
2 tags
Jan 26th
128 notes
1 tag
Jan 26th
296 notes
3 tags
Dropping the Head & Settling in the Heart →
Inspired by this post from earlier today, I wrote an inquiry into this practice over at Intense City: Usually my center of gravity is in my head, and often I am not even aware that I have a body below it. How does one move from a fragmented and self-centered point of view to a more encompassing and organic intelligence that is responsive to the subtle movements of feeling? In other words, how...
Jan 25th
13 notes
2 tags
“You must descend from your head into your heart. At present your thoughts of...”
– Saint Theophan the Recluse (an orthodox monk from 19th century Russia). With many thanks to The Beauty We Love.
Jan 24th
50 notes
1 tag
Jan 24th
437 notes
3 tags
Jan 24th
39 notes
1 tag
from William Segal, "Openings"
We are living in a special time.  Throughout the world there is a stirring and an interrelation of forces never before experienced by mankind.  All around us we see an unprecedented acceleration of the possibilities of change.  Power potentials have been released which threaten to upset cosmic balances. Ironically, the more gigantic and astonishing our manipulations of these energies, the more...
Jan 24th
33 notes
2 tags
“Since the entirety of our virtual world is being constructed in the present...”
– Andrew Olendzki, with thanks to Whiskey River.
Jan 24th
42 notes
2 tags
Jan 24th
106 notes
1 tag
Jan 24th
102 notes
2 tags
Fire Script
During the heavy months my life caught fire only when     I made love with you. The firefly too lights up and goes out, lights up and goes out     —by quick glimpses we follow its route among the olive trees in the darkness of night. During the heavy months the soul sat     indolent and crushed, but the body took the nearest way to you.     The night heavens gave off moos. We stole milk from the...
Jan 23rd
89 notes
1 tag
“Every person is a half-open door / leading to a room for everyone.”
– Tomas Tranströmer, from “The Half-Finished Heaven”
Jan 23rd
68 notes
3 tags
“Seeing is perception with the original, unconditioned eye. It is a state of...”
– John Daido Loori, Zen Buddhist rōshi who served as the abbot of Zen Mountain Monastery and was the founder of the Mountains and Rivers Order and CEO of Dharma Communications. With thanks to the Tao of Photography.
Jan 22nd
36 notes
1 tag
Jan 22nd
304 notes
1 tag
Jan 20th
103 notes
1 tag
“I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going....”
– Etta James, in her autobiography, Rage To Survive (RIP). Thank you, Austin.
Jan 20th
727 notes
2 tags
Jan 20th
69 notes
“This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with...”
– Dorothy Parker writes a mean couple of sentences. (via moreicecapades)
Jan 19th
155 notes
4 tags
Jan 19th
5 notes
1 tag
“You have slept for millions and millions of years. Why not wake up this...”
– Kabir (1440–1518), mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement. By way of the incomparable Whiskey River.
Jan 19th
140 notes