September 2011
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“It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do...”
– Aldous Huxley, Island (Thank you, heartmindspirit & atelier)
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“The frontier of our world is not far away; it doesn’t run along the horizon or...”
– Michal Ajvaz, The Other City (Thank you, mythologyofblue)
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“No particular thought can be mind’s natural state, only silence. Not the idea of...”
– Nisargadatta Maharaj (Yes, thank you, silencesounds)
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“I confess, I do not believe in time.”
– Vladimir Nabokov (Thank you, heartmindspirit & atlelier)
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Edward Salim Michael: Yoga and the Trinity
Hatha Yoga should, right from the start, be practiced in three directions simultaneously. That is to say, the three aspects of human nature—the mental, the emotional, and the physical—should become unites as one in this difficult struggle, all three participating equally in it.
Generally, this trinity in a human being is dissociated, but from his ordinary dispersed condition, it is...
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“What good does it do to be able to give a learned discourse on the Trinity,...”
– Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (Thank you shortbreadsh & redviena)
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“By closing down monasteries, the West came to rely exclusively on the intellect...”
– Kyriacos C. Markides, The Mountain of Silence: A Search for Orthodox Spirituality (Thank you, wait-what? and redviena)
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“That is what the world needs above all else: not people who “say prayers” with greater or lesser regularity, but people who are prayers.”
—Kallistos Ware, The Power of the Name, 19.
Via Faith & Theology, with thanks to dreaminginthedeepsouth.
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Wait - what ?: “We do not find our own center... →
“We do not find our own center; it finds us. Our own mind will not be able to figure it out.”
—Richard Rohr, from “Everything Belongs”
[In the forward to the book, the author writes, “How do you make attractive that which is not? How do you sell emptiness, vulnerability, and nonsuccess? How do you talk descent when everything is about ascent? How can you possibly market letting-go in a...
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“The sense of loneliness is an error. We are and move in a great crowd of those who are now, were, and will be.
In that great river.”
—Anna Kamienska, In that Great River: A Notebook (trans. by Clare Cavanagh). Thank you, awritersruminations.
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“I’ve always been suspicious. I don’t even look into my face. I shaved this...”
– Werner Herzog, in an interview with Chris Heath for GQ. In other news, Cave of Forgotten Dreams has opened here at last! (via itgivesitthew & buffleheadcabin). Go see Cave of Forgotten Dreams, it’s truly an amazing experience.
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“The stars are like letters which inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky....”
– Plotinus (Thank you, theantidote & mirela24)
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“We go out from the known to the unknown, we advance from light into darkness. We...”
– Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way (Thank you, redviena)
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“Can there simply be stillness without knowing? This stillness, this pure...”
– Toni Packer; “The Light of Discovery”, p. 7 (Thank you, dhammanovice)
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“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the...”
– Lewis Thomas (Thank you, eternelle-ritournelle)
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“I’d wish the reader, in the course of falling into one of my stories, to grow...”
– Steven Millhauser from this excellent interview by Marc Chénetier. I’ve been reading and re-reading his masterful short stories lately.
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“Yesterday as I came down the path from the mountain I heard a strange humming...”
– Thomas Merton, from a journal entry written in Dharamsala on November 2, 1968. (Thank you touba)
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“Nothing stays put. The world is a wheel.
All that we know, that we’re
made of,...”
– Amy Clampitt, from “Nothing Stays Put” (Thank you, proustitute)
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The Phenomenological World
As I drive by my neighbor’s yard, a swan I’ve mistaken daily for an ornament raises a wing.
—Jo McDougall, from her book of poems, “Dirt.” Thanks to Sugar on the Rumpus.
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The Break Up
It’s likely that the cause of it wasn’t any one thing, certainly not anything either of them would believe. Just the wearing away, water constantly reminding stone.
—Jo McDougall, from her book of poems “Dirt.”
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“All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we...”
– D.H. Lawrence, with thanks to 12Bent AKA Ordinary Finds.
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“Awe is everywhere, we just don’t always perceive it.”
– Alain De Botton (Thank you, therespendentvagabond.)
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“We say to the confused, Know thyself, as if knowing yourself was not the fifth...”
– José Saramago, with much gratitude to Whiskey River, who never ceases to amaze.
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“To look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for...”
– Virginia Woolf (Thank you, itonaim)
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“Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.”
– Lewis Carrol 