December 2011
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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
– Thomas Merton (Thank you, libraryland)
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“God, give us a long winter
and quiet music, and patient mouths,
and a little...”
– Adam Zagajewski with thanks to Whiskey River.
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“Learning how to think” really means learning how to exercise some control...”
– David Foster Wallace, This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life. With thanks to Whiskey River.
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“People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think...”
– Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth. With thanks to the Tao of Photography.
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“They miss the whisper that runs
any day in your mind,
“Who are you...”
– William Stafford, with gratitude to Whiskey River.
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“The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them...”
– Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1966), p. 204 (via parabola-magazine)
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“Time is constantly passing. If you really consider this fact, you will be...”
– Norman Fischer (via whiskey river, thank you, proustitute)
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An excerpt from "Happy Medium" →
What does it mean to find the Middle Way? Not in the sense of picking up a book on Buddhism or contacting a teacher, but in ourselves and in our lives. There is always a draw to act, a restless wish to move, to create, to do something. And there is also a wish to submit–and I’m not talking about depression or being a mouse or some unwholesome slavish quality here but to a wholesome...
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The "Four Marks" of the Mystical State.
“1. True mysticism is active and practical, not passive and theoretical. It is an organic life-process, a something which the whole self does; not something as to which its intellect holds an opinion. 2. Its aims are wholly transcendental and spiritual. It is in no way concerned with adding to, exploring, re-arranging, or improving anything in the visible universe. The mystic brushes aside...
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“The concept of the unconscious posits nothing; it designates only my unknowing.”
—C.G. Jung, from a letter to Pastor Max Frischkeit dated 8 February 1946.
Thank you, touba.
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Ask a Question that Cannot Be Formulated
“Self-knowledge leads to wonder, and wonder to curiosity and investigation, so that nothing interests people more than people, even if only one’s own person. Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
The people we are tempted to call clods and boors are just...
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“The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life,...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti (Yes, Thank you, apoetreflects)
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To Take a Step Without Feet
This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of live. In the end, to take a step without feet. To regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, to see beyond seeing itself, to reach and feel within the breast. My soul, where does this...
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“Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.”
– Matsuo Bashō, Oku no Hosomichi (via liquidnight)
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“We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea....”
– Paul Tillich (Thank you, libraryland)
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“When the Lord commanded us to be vigilant, he meant vigilance in both parts of...”
– St. Ephrem (Thank you, quaerere-deum)
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Silence | Sounds: White Spaces (extract) by Paul... →
“To think of motion not merely as a function of the body but as an extension of the mind. In the same way, to think of speech not as an extension of the mind but as a function of the body. Sounds emerge from the voice to enter the air and surround and bounce off and enter the body that occupies that air, and though they cannot be seen, these sounds are no less a gesture than a hand is when...
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