October 2010
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“Deep down, we know our devotion to reality is just a marriage of convenience, and we leave it to the seers, the shamans, the ascetics, the religious teachers, the artists among us to reach a higher state of awareness, from which they transcend our rigorous but routinely analyzing senses and become closer to the raw experience of nature that pours into the unconscious, the world of dreams, the...
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“It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego
because it does not...”
– Agnes Martin (from Intense City via: Whiskey River)
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“It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.”
– Agnes Martin (from riskywiver)
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“In moments of blindness when you meet someone you know well, they seem hardly...”
– Agnes Martin
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“I don’t have any ideas myself. I have a vacant mind, in order to do exactly what...”
– Agnes Martin
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“There is an underbelly of terror to all life. It is suffering, it is hurt. Deep...”
– Deng Ming-Dao, from Whiskey River
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“Some days, you and I go mad.
Our bellies get stuffed full,
Hearts break, minds...”
– Deng Ming-Dao, from Whiskey River
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“Just as energy can be used for many different purposes, so can pure existence be...”
– Katsuki Sekida, “A Guide to Zen”
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“There is a joy in the actual taste of vanilla ice cream that does not come from...”
– Charles T. Tart, “Mind Science: Meditation Training for Practical People”
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Emptiness
I’ve heard yogis talk of a divine emptiness, the body free of its base desires, some coiled and luminous god in all of us waiting to be discovered … and always I’ve pivoted, followed Blake’s road of excess to the same source and know how it feels to achieve nothing, the nothing that exists after accomplishment. And I’ve known the emptiness of nothing to say, no reason...
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“To deliver oneself up, hand oneself over, entrust oneself completely to the...”
– Thomas Merton, from sharanam via: the beauty we love
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“Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.”
– Czesław Miłosz. So true. Thank you aperfectcommotion.
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Solomon Burke, “Don’t Give Up on...
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“The starting point of true literature is the man who shuts himself up in his...”
– From Orhan Pamuk’s 2006 Nobel Prize Lecture courtesy of Five Branch Tree
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“In the morning I mused
It won’t return, the magic of life
it won’t return...”
– Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky, “The Spectacular Difference”
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“Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off...”
– Agnes Martin, “Writings”
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“Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to...”
– Meister Eckhart, from sharanam & Buddha Space 