June 2010
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“I am not what I am. My essence escapes me. Here “A” does not equal...”
– Czeslaw Milosz, “Unattainable Earth” (birthday today). (from Parabola Magazine on Facebook. They also have a Twitter account here.
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“I SLEPT SO SOUNDLY last night that I didn’t notice the earth revolving on its...”
– SY SAFRANSKY’S NOTEBOOK, The Sun Magazine, JULY 2010 | ISSUE 415 (via mikefenton & theantidote)
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“The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who...”
– Brion Gysin (via hotparade) (via airwalker)
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“There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid...”
– Hermann Hesse (via thechocolatebrigade) (via peachfuss) (via checosasonolenuvole) (via petersantiago)
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“If I may suggest, never under any circumstances ask ‘how’. When you use the word...”
– J. Krishnamurti in Krishnamurti to Himself: His Last Journal (May 30th, 1983) (via predatorywaspobserver)
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Japan
Today, I pass the time reading a favorite haiku, saying the words over and over. It feels like eating the same small, perfect grape again and again. I walk through the house reciting it and leave its letters falling through the air of every room. I stand by the big silence of the piano and say it. I say it in front of the painting of the sea. I tap out its rhythm on an empty shelf. I listen to...
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“Temple bells die out.
The fragrant blossoms remain.
A perfect evening!”
– Basho (via yama-bato)
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“When we question ego-mind directly, it is exposed for what it is: the absence of...”
– Dzigar Kongtrül Rinpoche via Searching for Self | Tricycle Magazine (via sharanam)
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“God is not always silent, and man is not always
blind. In every man’s...”
– Rabbi Abraham Heschel (from the amazing article, “Tree of the Art of Mind,” by Tom Weidlinger at Works and Conversations)
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“To acknowledge our ancestors means we are aware that we did not make ourselves,...”
– Alice Walker (from a wonderful collection of quotes at Sun Magazine)
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Vertigo
Mind led body to the edge of the precipice. They stared in desire at the naked abyss. If you love me, said mind, take that step into silence. If you love me, said body, turn and exist.
- Anne Stevenson
(from airwalker)
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“…when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with...”
– Sogyal Rinpoche (from paynehollow via deathconstructed)
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“Fleeing from himself is man’s favorite pastime.”
– Christopher Spranger, “The Effort to Fall” (via invisiblestories)
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“Self-awareness doesn’t arrive on a golden cloud. It’s an achievement won through...”
– Thomas Moore (from darwinwoodka via: article)
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“One can own a mirror; does one then own the reflection that can be seen in it?”
– Wittgenstein, “Zettel,” (via aclockwithouthands)
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“There must always be the bite of
the creek’s smell. The face of the man
I...”
– “The Other Excitement” by Linda Gregg (via aclockwithouthands)
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“Try to be, only to be. The all-important word is ‘try’. Allot enough time daily...”
– Nisargadatta Majaraj, from “I Am That” (via paynehollow)
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“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no...”
– Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche (from riskywiver) 