July 2011
Tanka
As a warm day dawns, the house next-door is ablaze with golden sunlight. It never fails to leave me unreasonably happy.
—Michael Boiano
Dead Leaf Echo: Michael Dickman: We Did Not Make... →
fireandether:
We did not make ourselves is one thing I keep singing into my hands while falling asleep
for just a second
before I have to get up and turn on all the lights in the house, one after the other, like opening an Advent calendar
My brain opening the chemical miracles in my brain switching on
I…
“An inconvenience is an unrecognised opportunity.”
– Confucius (via bonniero)
“There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them....”
“Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life...”
“In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is...”
Tanka
Heading toward home along a frozen river, immune to the cold— finding in our love a fair approximation of spring.
—Michael Boiano
“Though the body moves, the soul may stay behind.
—Murasaki Shikibu”
“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is...”
“What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has...”
“Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
—Walt Whitman”
“I don’t have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.
—Ayumi...”
“At the entrance, my bare feet on the dirt floor, Here, gusts of heat; at my...”
“I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the...”
“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
—Saint Augustine
(this...”
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, What good will they do...”
“To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire...”
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose...”
It's like this ...: "The Avowal" ~ Denise Levertov →
dhammanovice:
“As swimmers dare to lie face to the sky and water bears them, as hawks rest upon air and air sustains them, so would I learn to attain free fall, and float into Creator Spirit’s deep embrace, knowing no effort earns that all-surrounding grace.”
Denise Levertov (1923–1997)
“…. With…
“Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.
—Lewis Carroll”
