Journal of a Nobody: Archive

Just to make it clear

“Ce monde rayonnant de métal et de pierre
Me ravit en extase, et j’aime à la fureur
Les choses où le son se mêle à la lumière.”

“This radiant world of metal and of gems
Transports me with delight; I passionately love
All things in which sound is mingled with light.”

Charles Baudelaire

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“So be it. I am
a wholeness I’ll never know.
Maybe that’s the best.” —Hayden Carruth, from “Five Short Shorts” (via tumbleword)

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Late Prayer by Jane Hirshfield

goingabout:

Tenderness does not choose its own uses.
It goes out to everything equally,
circling rabbit and hawk.
Look: in the iron bucket,
a single soul, a single ruby —
all the heavens and hells.
They rattle in the heart and make one sound.

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Tanka

This year’s first sunrise
on the eastern horizon
begins my New Year,
having left you far behind
in a year I have finished.

—Michael Boiano

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“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.” —:: Franz Kafka (via aegis-grin)

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Tanka

She’s too far away
this biting cold New Year’s Eve.
Twenty tolls into
the temple bell’s midnight song,
I’ll no doubt be fast asleep.

—Michael Boiano

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“Most psychology doesn’t involve sublime erudition any more than religion involves miracles and epiphanies, but just the care of other interested people.
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echtra:

Learn about your inner self from those who know such things

When one is united to the core of another

To speak of,

That is to breathe the name…

How empty of self and filled with love.

As the saying goes,

“The pot drips what is in it”

The saffron spice of connecting, laughter.

The onion smell of separation, crying…

Others have many things and people they love,

This is not the way of friend and friend.

~rumi ~

Taught by suffering. Drop by drop, wisdom is distilled from pain.
-Aeschylus Agamemnon

From The Presocratics, Philip Wheelwright.

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“If a person can go into his sorrow deeply he will find all sorrow has evaporated. In that evaporation of sorrow is joy, is bliss. Bliss has not to be found outside, against sorrow. Bliss has to be found deep, hidden behind the sorrow itself. You have to dig into your sorrowful states and you will find a wellspring of joy.” —Osho (via 1-2-3-4-5-6-7)

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“I watch people in the world
Throw away their lives lusting after things,
Never able to satisfy their desires,
Falling into deeper despair
And torturing themselves.
Even if they get what they want
How long will they be able to enjoy it?
For one heavenly pleasure
They suffer ten torments of hell,
Binding themselves more firmly to the grindstone.
Such people are like monkeys
Frantically grasping for the moon in the water
And then falling into a whirlpool.
How endlessly those caught up in the floating world suffer.
Despite myself, I fret over them all night
And cannot staunch my flow of tears.” —— Ryōkan (1758–1831), Zen poet (via 1-2-3-4-5-6-7)

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“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained;
I stand and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition;
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins;
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God;
Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things;
Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago;
Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.” —“Animals” a poem by Walt Whitman (via socialistscum)

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“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson (via lowla)

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“Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It’s enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance — embracing all opposites.” —Taisen Deshimaru, Zen teacher (1914-1982)

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“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” —Buddha (via 1-2-3-4-5-6-7)

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All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.

—Iris Murdoch

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“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when it’s hollow, when ceilings are harder and farther away. Then I can breathe, and can think while others are sleeping, in a way can stop time, can have it so – this has always been my dream – so that while everyone else is frozen, I can work busily about them, doing whatever it is that needs to be done, like the elves who make the shoes while children sleep.” —Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (via pavorst)

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“What I don’t write is as important as what I write.” —Jamaica Kincaid (via pavorst)

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