December 2010
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That moment when you're reading a book and you...
I find this very, very funny. From libraryland & snapesgrudge
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“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
—Hunter S. Thompson
(via: airwalker &...
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“The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.”
– Publilius Syrus (via amiquote)
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“It was his subconscious which told him this — that infuriating part of a...”
– Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul, William Heinemann 1988 (via amiquote)
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“You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I...”
– Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless, Pan Books, UK; Harmony Books, U.S., 1992 (via amiquote)
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“There is a part of everything which is unexplored, because we are accustomed to...”
– Gustave Flaubert (via invisiblestories)
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“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies,...”
– Patricia Highsmith, New Year’s Eve, 1947 (via: buffleheadcabin & mlq3)
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Seth Godin - The first rule of doing work that... →
Go to work on a regular basis.
Art is hard. Selling is hard. Writing is hard. Making a difference is hard.
When you’re doing hard work, getting rejected, failing, working it out—this is a dumb time to make a situational decision about whether it’s time for a nap or a day off or a coffee break.
Zig taught me this twenty years ago. Make your schedule before you start....
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“Think about how much of our bodies and minds have archaeological traces within...”
– Timothy Morton, Ecology without Nature: Neolithic (tnx wildcat2030)
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“Imagine if all the tumult of the body were to quiet down, along with our busy...”
– Saint Augustine, from The Beauty We Love
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“The whole point of retreat is to develop your mind and your state of being so...”
– Reggie Ray, “The Power of Solitude” (via sharanam)
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“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we...”
– Anais Nin (via libraryland)
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“Which one of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a...”
– Jorge Luis Borges. Thank you and with much gratitude to the amazing Whiskey River.
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“I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects...”
– Italo Calvino (From Lewis Hyde’s website.)
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“You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in...”
– Indira Gandhi (via justjori & kari-shma)
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“Most people act as if they had a private understanding, but in fact the Logos is...”
– Heraclitus
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“A work of art is a gift, not a commodity…
Where there is no gift there is...”
– Lewis Hyde, The Gift. I received his book, Trickster Makes the World as a Christmas gift and it is so far one of the most extraordinary books that I have ever come across.
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“Being mindfully aware in and out of meditation is the practice that brings...”
– Ayya Khema, from her book Be an Insland. Taken from today’s post at Mind Deep, a mindfulness practice blog
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“Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via liquidnight)
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“The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see,...”
– Arthur Miller (via shacknoir & libraryland)
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“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where...”
– Laurence J. Peter (via libraryland)
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Eckermann’s Conversations with Goethe
“The highest a man can attain,’ said Goethe on this occasion, ‘is wonder, and when the primordial phenomenon makes him wonder he should be content; it can give him nothing higher, and he should not look for anything beyond it; here is the boundary. But the sight of a primordial phenomenon is not generally enough for men; they think there must be more in the back of it, like children who,...
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“We all place ourselves at various levels, and we are constantly falling from...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti Commentaries on Living Series I Chapter 57, Self-Esteem (via dhammanovice)
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“The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.”
– Don DeLillo, Point Omega (via fwriction)
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“the snow doesn’t give a soft white
damn whom it touches”
– E.E. Cummings, from “XIX”, from Viva (via liquidnight)
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“Days begin and end in the dead of night. They are not shaped long, in the manner...”
– Jean Giono, Rondeur Des Jours. Thank you, Whiskey River.
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Calexico/Iron & Wine: Always On My Mind (orig....