December 2011
Just to make it clear
opusaliud:
“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
“So be it. I am
a wholeness I’ll never know.
Maybe that’s the best.”
– Hayden Carruth, from “Five Short Shorts” (via tumbleword)
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.
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
“From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the...”
– :: Franz Kafka (via aegis-grin)
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
“Most psychology doesn’t involve sublime erudition any more than religion...”
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...
patienceunlikedew:
Taught by suffering. Drop by drop, wisdom is distilled from pain. -Aeschylus Agamemnon
From The Presocratics, Philip Wheelwright.
“If a person can go into his sorrow deeply he will find all sorrow has...”
– Osho (via 1-2-3-4-5-6-7)
“I watch people in the world
Throw away their lives lusting after things,
Never...”
– — Ryōkan (1758–1831), Zen poet (via 1-2-3-4-5-6-7)
“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self...”
– “Animals” a poem by Walt Whitman (via socialistscum)
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via lowla)
“Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful,...”
– Taisen Deshimaru, Zen teacher (1914-1982)
“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would...”
– Buddha (via 1-2-3-4-5-6-7)
“All art is a struggle to be, in a particular sort of way, virtuous.
...”
“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when...”
– Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (via pavorst)
“What I don’t write is as important as what I write.”
– Jamaica Kincaid (via pavorst)
