February 2011
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“To possess the right to the name of ‘man’, one must be one. And to be such, one...”
– G. I. Gurdjieff: Beelzebub’s Tales, p. 1209
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“Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful...”
– Paramahansa Yogananda, Spiritual Diary (via hhelise)
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“As you begin to befriend your inner silence, one of the first things you will...”
– John O’Donohue, Silence, the Sister of the Divine (via dhammanovice & noornalini)
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“Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be...”
– Bertrand Russell (Thank you, dhammanovice, human-voices, saber-y-conocer, & sharanam)
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Epiphany
“In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race … there is no way of telling people that they...
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“Awareness is the basis, or what you might call the “support,” of the mind. It is...”
– Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, “The Aim of Attention” (Thank you, dhammanovice & noornalini)
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Van Morrison | T.B. Sheets. This is devastatingly...
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“It is enough that one surrenders oneself.
Surrender is to give oneself up to...”
– Ramana Maharshi. Thank you, The Beauty We Love.
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“A poem is a secret shared by people who have never met each other.”
– Charles Simic, excerpt from “Where is Poetry Going?”, New York Review of Books (via aperfectcommotion)
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Within and around the earth, within and around the hills, within and around the mountains, your center returns to you. ~ Alfonso Ortiz
Submitted by, Kirsten Liske. Thank you.
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Gratitude (Long Overdue Edition)
Thank you to everyone who visits this page and thank you so much for your kind words and encouragement. I would also like to thank all of the blogs and kind unsuspecting folks that I pilfer from almost daily.
warm regards,
Luke
From my often neglected submission box:
imnotherethereanywhere: I’m on the 26th page of your blog and I just wanted to let you know that your blog is a...
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“Here I should like to mention a conversation, which strikes me as memorable,...”
– Henry Corbin in a footnote to Alone with the Alone: Creative Imagination in the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi (Thank you, touba)
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“When it comes to life, the critical thing is whether you take things for granted...”
– G. K. Chesterton (Thank you, arsvitaest, parkstepp, & madaeli26.)
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“The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In...”
– Frank Lloyd Wright (Thank you, theantidote & mfs)
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“It must be those brief moments when nothing has happened - nor is going to. Tiny moments, like islands in the ocean beyond the grey continent of our ordinary days. There, sometimes, you meet your own heart like someone you’ve never known.”
-Hans Børli
Today in the river.
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Principles
“You talked about the first principle again, but I still don’t know what it is,” I said to Suzuki. “I don’t know,” he said, “is the first principle.”
—David Chadwick Crooked Cucumber, courtesy of Whiskey River.
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I was sad one day and went for a walk; I sat in a field. A rabbit noticed my condition and came near. It often does not take more than that to help at times - to just be close to creatures who are so full of knowing, so full of love that they don’t - chat, they just gaze with their marvelous understanding. ~ St. John of the Cross from Love Poems from God, translations by Daniel Ladinsky....
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“Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow...”
– Helen Keller, Midstream: My Later Life (via liquidnight)
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“If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend...”
– Epictetus (This is great. Thank you, dreaminginthedeepsouth, pterodactyls & danielholter)
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“By far the most difficult reason for our lack of dedicated intention [on the...”
– Rodney Smith in Stepping Out of Self-Deception: The Buddha’s Liberating Teaching of No-Self (Shambhala Publications)
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“To be a philosopher is to take to the road, never settling down in some place of...”
– Henry Corbin (via touba)
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“Even when we practice zazen we are not in a state in which thoughts do not...”
– Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, in “Zazen That Amounts to Nothing” in the Spring 2011 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly. (via sharanam)
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“It’s as if when you were born and you heard that from now on throughout you...”
– Kosho Uchiyama Roshi, referring to practitioners who anticipate results or experiences à la sudden enlightenment. From “Zazen That Amounts to Nothing” in the Spring 2011 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner’s Quarterly. (via sharanam)
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“…Ever since I was a child, I have had the tendency to create a fictitious...”
– Fernando Pessoa in a letter to his friend Casais Monteiro. Thank you, The Beauty We Love.
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“By daily dying, I have come to be.”
– Theodore Roethke. From aperfectcommotion via. 