January 2012
151 posts
Arriving from always, you’ll go away everywhere.
– Arthur Rimbaud
December 2011
165 posts
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it...
– Lao Tzu
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...
– Franz Kafka
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of...
– Buddha
I’m here not because I am supposed to be here, or because I’m trapped here, but...
– Richard Bach
You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you,...
–
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
Think, dear Sir, of the world that you carry inside you… What is happening in...
–
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
Loving does not at first mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another...
–
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and...
–
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the...
–
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
… what I could say about your tendency to doubt or about your inability to bring...
–
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
I want to bite into life, and to be torn by it.
– Anaïs Nin
We rarely hear the inward music, but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless.
– Rumi
Go with the flow of things, and you will find yourself at one with the...
– Chuang Tzu
We need a renaissance of wonder. We need to renew, in our hearts and in our...
– E. Merrill Root