May 2013
“As a lamp, a cataract, a star in space / an illusion, a dewdrop, a bubble / a...”
– Happy Birthday Diamond Sutra
April 2013
“You are working on a first draft and small wonder you’re unhappy. If you lack...”
– – John McPhee
Nisargadatta on the Void of Not Knowing
“I was undeceived, that is all. I used to create a world and populate it. Now I don’t do it any more. [Now I live] in the void beyond being and non-being, beyond consciousness. This void is also fullness; do not pity me. The mind ceased producing events. The ancient and ceaseless search stopped — I wanted nothing, expected nothing, accepted nothing as my own. There was no...
“A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution.”
– Hazel Nicholson
How to Write About Astrology — or Not →
There is nothing more heartbreaking than when an amateur following what she thinks is her calling discovers that it’s simply the ominous groan of a foghorn declaring: “Danger! Treacherous rocks ahead. Think of your mortgage.”
“There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of...”
– Annie Dillard
Moving Towards Art
“When an art form is created, the question is: How do you come to it? Not how does it come to you. Beethoven’s music is not going to come to you, or the art of Picasso won’t come to you, nor Shakespeare’s. You have to go to it — and when you go to it you get the benefits of it.”
—Wynton Marsalis
