July 2011
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“More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.”
– Brian Eno
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“Art to me was a state: it didn’t need to be an accomplishment.”
– Margaret Anderson
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“My daily job is to find a way out of that place, again and again and again....”
– Miranda July | Film | Interview | The A.V. Club (Thank you, machinery)
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“At present, the outer universe—earth, stones, mountains, rocks, and cliffs—seems...”
– Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche. Thank you, Tricycle: “City of Dreams: Recognizing the Fleeting Nature of the World.”
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“There is a backpack in the mind
which over the years has become
filled with...”
– William Martin. (2000). Ancient advice for the second half of life. New York: The Experiment, p. 47. It’s great advice at anytime. Thank you, Peter @ Fernwood Zendo.
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“We never see anything completely… We never see a tree, we see the tree through...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti (via parabola-magazine)
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“In the surface world our ability to make things happen is very limited. This...”
– Malidoma Somé (Another great quote, courtesy of Reclusland).
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“There are really only two kinds of people in existence. There is everyone who...”
– Peter Kingsley (Thank you reclusland)
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Waking Up Together →
“We wake each other. A friend who was a bell ringer on a silent retreat told me that he felt he wasn’t just waking others but himself and also the bell. We sound the depths in each other. We give the search for awakening the living material of our own lives. We bring the search to life. And when we embark on the quest (which can be just for a moment, for the space of a question) we join...
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“So imagine a fire going — wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little...”
– Steven Millhauser
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“Stripped of words, untamed, the universe pours in on me from every direction. I...”
– Steven Millhauser, Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories (Thank you, aperfectcommotion)
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“After all, we were young. We were fourteen and fifteen, scornful of childhood,...”
– Steven Millhauser, Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories.
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solitude
“To discover the conscious mind in a world where intellect is held to be valuable requires solitude, quite a lot of solitude. We have been very strenuously conditioned against solitude. To be alone is considered to be a grievous and dangerous condition.
So I beg you to recall in detail any times when you were alone. You will find the fear that we have been taught is not one fear, but many...
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“Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday. Heart feels better, then. But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart. Heart is so new to this. I want them back, says heart. Head is all heart has. Help, head. Help heart.”
—Lydia Davis...
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“Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her...”
– Lydia Davis, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis. Currently reading a book of her short stories called Break it Down. It’s amazing.
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“Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop...”
– Charlotte Joko Beck; “Nothing Special”, p.87 (Remarkable how she cuts through. Thank you, dhammanovice)
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“We all enter the spiritual path as ego-based beings, and as such we have...”
– Lama Tsony, “Facing Fear” (Thank you, tinytruths)
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“When we become open awareness, our ability to do necessary thinking gets...”
– Charlotte Joko Beck; “Nothing Special”, p. 87 (Yes. Thank you, dhammanovice)
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Selecting a Reader
First, I would have her be beautiful, and walking carefully up on my poetry at the loneliest moment of an afternoon, her hair still damp at the neck from washing it. She should be wearing a raincoat, an old one, dirty from not having money enough for the cleaners. She will take out her glasses, and there in the bookstore, she will thumb over my poems, then put the book back up on its shelf. She...
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“In art, and maybe just in general, the idea is to be able to be really...”
– George Saunders
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“Fuck concepts. Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently...”
– George Saunders
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“Let me close by saying, from the perspective of someone with two grown and...”
– George Saunders, providing a summer reading list for kids. (Thank you, thebronzemedal)
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“In the practice of meditation, being a fool becomes a stepping stone. The...”
– Chogyam Trungpa, Glimpses of Abhidharma. Thank you to Ocean of Dharma.
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“The natural state is just itself and nothing else, whether thoughts are arising...”
– Lopon Tenzin Namdak. Thank you, Piers Moore Ede.
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