February 2010
“Whoever, when he dies, leaves on paper a beautiful line of poetry has left the...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via stranded-wanderer)
Shut up and sit.
“I find myself agitated most of the time,” said a young man, so it’s difficult for me to sit. What would you suggest I do?”
Eido [Shimano] reached for the pitcher of water that was sitting next to him. He lifted it with a swift jerk, causing water to spill. “What can I do?” Then he jerked the pitcher to the right. Again water spilled. “I don’t know what is happening.” Again to the left. “I...
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“The still point is at the heart of the creative process. In Zen, we access it...”
– John Daido Loori Roshi, “The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life” (from wonderingmind studio)
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“And whatever your path is at this moment, every single step is equal in...”
– Susan Murphy (wonderful quote from the master gatherer, Whiskey River)
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January 2010
“It’s not where you take an idea from, it’s where you take it to.”
– Jean-Luc Godard (via samsaramotel)
Aphex Twin - Avril 14th (thank you leitmotif)
“When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her...”
– Elie Wiesel (via nihilnoetia)
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The Three Oddest Words
When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. When I pronounce the word Nothing, I make something no non-being can hold.
— Wislawa Szymborska
(from: amare-habeo)
Maurice Ravel - String quartet in F maj. - II....
Brian Eno - Deep Blue Day (A nice one from...
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Behind Perfume, Only Solitude
Ink will come. Lamp lung breathes light at the edge of an idea. The edge an idea, also the door
of the room that silence opens.
The pen sighs, a lens for the shut-in light. Breathe me, light. Have the idea to have me.
— Liz Waldner
(from Slow Muse)
“This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my...”
– D.H. Lawrence (Whiskey River, your amazing)
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“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the...”
– Anthony Burgess (via nihilnoetia)
“There is a marvelous peace in not publishing. It’s peaceful. Still. Publishing...”
– J.D. Salinger, (one of the rare) interview(s), 1974, The Times (via samsaramotel)
“No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are...”
– John O’Donohue (Courtesy of Whiskey River)
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“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own...”
– J.D Salinger (via theimpossiblecool)
“That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying...”
– Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) (via tapwaterjackson) (via xineann)
Philip Glass - Opening (from: invisiblestories,...