February 2012
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“Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.”
– John Updike, A Month Of Sundays
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“The heart that
breaks open can
contain the
whole universe.”
– Joanna Macy
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“Like wind - In it, with it, of it. Of it just like a sail, so light and strong...”
– Dag Hammarskjöld, Markings with thanks to Whiskey River.
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“Shadow and light always go in pairs. The Mother, companion to Aurobindo, insists...”
– Alphonse Goetmann, Dialogue on The Path of Initiation: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Karlfried Graf Durckheim (New York, NY: Globe Press Books, 1991), p. 61
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“The wind blows hard among the pines
Toward the beginning
of an endless past....”
– Shinkichi Takahashi, from Whiskey River.
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“The whole of life lies in the verb seeing.”
– Teilhard de Chardin (Thank you, mythologyofblue)
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Parabola Magazine: looking within →
“I would see D.T. Suzuki from time to time. He later came to see me at Todtmoos. It was in 1954 and I had just received a telegram from the Protestant Academy of Munich asking me to do a conference on oriental wisdom. I took advantage of his presence to ask him: “Master, could you tell me in a few words what oriental wisdom is?”
He smiled and said: “Western knowledge looks outside,...
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“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know’.”
– Wislawa Szymborska, from her Nobel Prize acceptance speech (Yes. Thank you, kateoplis)
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“I often say that I don’t worry about the meaning of life - I can’t...”
– Robert Fulghum. Today in the river.
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“I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed,...”
– C.G. Jung, near the end of his life, in Memories, Dreams. Thanks for submitting this Mark.
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Leonard Cohen on Meditation
“You run through your top ten erotic fantasies, ambition fantasies, revenge fantasies, global ratification fantasies. You run through them all until you bore yourself to death, basically, and the faculty that produces opinions and snap judgments and unrealistic scenarios for your own prominence, after you run through them for a number of years, they cease to have charge. They bore...
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“I think it’s really important to go to your room and sit there. I couldn’t mean...”
– Stephen Dunn
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“I think that being artists in a time like this, we have a lot to give. It is a...”
– Meredith Monk, Interview, Spring 1991 (PDF)
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“Whatever we say
we know there is another
language under this one”
– W. S. Merwin, from “To the Tongue” in Present Company
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“As you walk, cultivate a sense of ease. There’s no hurry to get anywhere, no...”
– Peter Doobinin, “Awakening, Step by Step“ (Thank you, tinytruths)
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The Inner Law
He whose law is within himself Walks in hiddenness. His acts are not influenced By approval or disapproval. He whose law is outside himself Directs his will to what is Beyond his control And seeks To extend his power Over objects. He who walks in hiddenness Has light to guide him In all his acts. He who seeks to extend his control Is nothing but an operator. While he thinks he is Surpassing...
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“It seems to me that, as a contemplative, I do not need to lock myself into...”
– Thomas Merton, William Shannon, ed., The Hidden Ground of Love: The Letters of Thomas Merton on Religious Experience and Social Concerns (New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1979)
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“You boys know what tropism is, it’s what makes a plant grow toward the...”
– Tobias Wolff, Old School
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Midwinter
A blue light radiates from my clothing. Midwinter. Clattering tambourines of ice. I close my eyes. There is a silent world there is a crack where the dead are smuggled across the border.
—Tomas Tranströmer, The Sorrow Gondola. Courtesy of Whiskey River.
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“Clarity is one of the things I like to go for. I don’t think we’re...”
– Leonard Cohen, with thanks to Whiskey River.
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“Complete consciousness is present to us at all times, every moment, but we...”
– Agnes Martin, with thanks to the Tao of Photography.
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This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.
—Dag Hammarskjöld
With thanks to Whiskey River.
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How to live - someone asked me this in a letter, someone I had wanted to ask that very thing. Again and as always, and as seen above there are no questions more urgent than the naive ones.
—Wisława Szymborska from “The Turn of the Century,” translated by Joanna Maria Trzeciak.
Thank you, Whiskey River.
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“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
– Rumi (Thank you, theantidote, human-voices & thatkief)
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“The paradox of the human condition is that nothing is so contrary to us as the...”
– Frithjof Schuon, Echoes of Perennial Wisdom. Courtesy of One Cosmos and Whiskey River.
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