June 2011
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“Why is it that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos...”
– Walker Percy. Today in the River.
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“When humility delivers a man
from attachment to his own words
and his own...”
– Thomas Merton. Thank you, The Beauty We Love.
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“Thich Nhat Hanh, the Vietnamese Zen master, mindfulness teacher, poet, and peace...”
– Jon Kabat-Zinn: Coming to Our Senses (Thank you, sharanam & Melissa)
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“You give into distraction as if it is a murderer. You lay there, waiting to be...”
– Miranda July, “oracle” project. Thank you, saturnrising, wonderbotstudios & onfilmdirecting.
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“There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to...”
– Marcel Proust. Today in the river.
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“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“Each of us has to look into our dark world, recognize the forces that bind us,...”
– Ruth Burrows, Guidelines for Mystical Prayer. Thanks to louie, louie and Gerry Straub.
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“The first revolution is when you change your mind about how you look at things...”
– Gil Scott-Heron (Thank you, brlouis)
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“We had no choice but to live
in a time of abrupt flowers.”
– Dean Young, from “The Commendation” (Beautiful. Thank you, proustitute)
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To You
What is more beautiful than night and someone in your arms that’s what we love about art it seems to prefer us and stays if the moon or a gasping candle sheds a little light or even dark you become a landscape in a landscape with rocks and craggy mountains and valleys full of sweaty ferns breathing and lifting into the clouds which have actually come low as a blanket of aspirations’ blue for once...
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“Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All...”
– Charlotte Joko Beck in Everyday Zen. As quoted by David Riley at The Endless Further in his tribute to her. (Thank you, dhammanovice)
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Without Beginning or End →
“For thousand of years the human brain has been conditioned to act from the center to the periphery and from the periphery to the center by a continuous movement, going out and coming back. How could this movement ever stop? If it ceases, an energy will appear that is without limit, without cause, without beginning or end. To come to this, it is first necessary to make order -to clean...
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“I am an artist. It’s self-evident that what that word implies is looking...”
– Vincent van Gogh. Today in the river.
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“Like the blue of the sky it reflects,
our small heart struggles to be
as high...”
– Kikuo Takano: “A Pool of Water” (Thank you, yama-bato)
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“When the mind, one pointed and fully focused, knows the supreme silence in the...”
– Sri Ramana Maharshi. Discovered this evening on my box of Organic India Tulsi Tea.
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“The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a...”
– Lewis Hyde, The Gift, p. 25
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the work of wings: The Sun →
Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon and into the clouds or the hills, or the rumpled sea, and is gone— and how it slides again out of the blackness, every morning, on the other side of the world, like a red flower streaming upward on its heavenly oils, say, on a morning in early...
