April 2010
7 posts
“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.”
“In our obscure life, for instance, how easy
it is to turn from the masters...”
“I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It’s...”
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March 2010
31 posts
“By nature, we do not perceive ourselves or others accurately. We magnify the...”
“This is what life does. It lets you walk up to
the store to buy breakfast and...”
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“Hey, we’re coming out
Dancing downtown
Free like whatever we dream about
And...”
“A beautiful girl can make you dizzy, like you’ve been drinking Jack and Coke all...”
“Maybe sometimes life isn’t meant to be explained.”
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,...”
“Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through....”
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
“I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in...”
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“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is...”
“There are all sorts of experiences we can’t really put a name to…The...”
“Here is the test to find whether your mission
on earth is finished: if you’re...”
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1 tag
“The Tibetan Buddhist teacher Pema Chodron likens our ego to a room, a protective...”
“The ancient people who desired to have a clear moral harmony in the world would...”
“Fucking get back. I have cut
the white paper gasket
out of the apple. Yes,...”
“If you or I ever needed wings, they might grow like teeth, in intermittent pain...”
“The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your...”
“we are members one of another
we act different parts but are the same”
“Probably the Creator knew well that, when He created man upon this earth, He was...”
1 tag
“What is special electrical railroad in anyone
that anyone...”
2 tags
“Life is like electronic music: it starts off slow, gets increasingly frenzied...”
1 tag
“We tend to be alive in the future, not now. We say, “Wait until I finish...”
“Don’t say that I will depart tomorrow —
even today I am still...”
“A great work of art is like the naked body: admired in private, yet publicly...”
“If life seems jolly rotten
There’s something you’ve forgotten
And...”
1 tag
“Why do we despise the body, when the flesh itself shows such intelligence? After...”
“I think that going to the rest room is a good way to look at our practice. Zen master Ummon may have been the first to make a connection between our practice and the rest room. ‘What is your practice?’ ‘What is Buddha?’ someone asked him. He answered, ‘Toilet paper.’ Actually, nowadays it is toilet paper, but he said, “Something to wipe yourself...
“Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryant, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. So to say that...
February 2010
1 post
“One learned man is harder on the devil than a thousand ignorant worshipers”.