January 2011
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“When a bird gets
free it doesn’t go back for remnants
left on the bottom of...”
– Rumi
“You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why...”
– ~René Daumal, poet and all around mercurial figure in twentieth century avant-garde French literature.
pilfered happily from the awesome crashinglybeautiful’s Luke Storm
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Can you meet the Other as if they are truly unique, that is, without genre?
—Genju
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“To approach the Other in conversation is to welcome his expression, in which at...”
– — Emmanuel Levinas (Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (Philosophical Series))
“If stories come to you, care for them. And learn to give them away where they...”
– Barry Lopez (via artpropelled)
“One day we were in a room about this big. People were coming in and asking...”
– Jack Kornfield on Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (From dhammanovice via noornalini)
“Thinking is not a problem. Thought is an object. An object is just an...”
– Paraphrasing Sayadaw U Tejaniya here… (via sharanam)
Thank you, sharanam! May your journey bring much merit to all beings.
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“Just when the author sits down to write, “the monster of grim...”
– Vladimir Nabokov