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Fishbowl Quotes
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Aug 15, 2003 "When we honestly
ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most us, we often find
that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures,
have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle
and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of
despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and
bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and
face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who
cares." Henri Nouwen Aug 16 "There are as many
nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's
course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the
word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by
sadness." Carl Jung Aug 17: "If a man
walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of
being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator,
shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is
deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
Henry David Thoreau "If you are
alone you belong entirely to yourself....If you are accompanied by even
one companion you belong only half to yourself, or even less, in
proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct; and if you have more
than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight."
Leonardo da Vinci "Being able to
say that one is a survivor is an accomplishment. For many, the power is in
the name itself. And yet comes a time in the individuation process when
the threat or trauma is significantly past. Then is the time to go to the
next stage after survivorship, to healing and thriving. ... One can take
so much pride in being a survivor that it becomes a hazard to further
creative development. ... Once the threat is past, there is a potential
trap in calling ourselves by names taken on during the most terrible time
of our lives. It creates a mind-set that is potentially limiting. It is
not good to base the soul identity solely on the feats and losses and
victories of the bad times." Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women
Who Run With the Wolves Aug 20: "Psychically,
it is good to make a halfway place, a way station, a considered place in
which to rest and mend after one escapes a famine. It is not too much to
take one year, two years, to assess one's wounds, seek guidance, apply the
medicines, consider the future. A year or two is scant time. The feral
woman is a woman making her way back. She is learning to wake up, pay
attention, stop being naïve, uninformed. She takes her life in her own
hands. To re-learn the deep feminine instincts, it is vital to see how
they were decommissioned to begin with." Clarissa Pinkola
Estes, Women Who Run With the Wolves Aug 21: "Ring the
bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack
in everything, That's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen Aug 22: "The shadow is
both the awful thing that needs redemption, and the suffering redeemer who
can provide it." Liz Green Aug 23 "In the
darkness something was happening at last. A voice had begun to sing. It
was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction
it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once.
Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them.
Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself.
There were no words. There was hardly even a tune. But it was, beyond
comparison, the most beautiful noise he had ever heard. It was so
beautiful he could hardly hear it. The horse seemed to like it too; he
gave the sort of whinny a horse would give if, after years of being a
cab-horse, it found itself back in the old field where it had played as a
foal, and saw someone whom it remembered and loved coming across the field
to bring it a lump of sugar." C.S. Lewis, The
Magician's Nephew Aug 24: "If we do not
rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek
the kinds of growth that we find individually fulfilling, then we can have
no security: we will live in a world of sham, in which our selves are
determined by the will of others, in which we will be constantly buffeted
and increasingly isolated by the changes round us." Nena
O'Neil Aug 25: "Birth and
Death are the two noblest expressions of bravery." Kahlil
Gibran Aug 26: "Life has
taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in
looking outward together in the same direction." Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Aug 27: "Give your
hearts, but not into each other's keeping. For only the hand of Life
can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near
together: For the pillars of the temple stand apart, and the oak
tree and the cypress grow not in each other's shadow." Kahlil
Gibran Aug 28: "When the
apple is ripe it will fall. When the apple is ripe it will fall." Irish
proverb Aug 29: "Mistakes are
the portals of discovery." James Joyce Aug 30: "The creative
act, insofar as it depends on unconscious resources, presupposes a
relaxing of controls and a regression to modes of ideation which are
indifferent to the rules of verbal logic, unperturbed by contradiction,
untouched by the dogmas and taboos of so called common sense. At the
decisive stage of discovery the codes of disciplined reasoning are
suspended - as they are in a dream, the reverie, the manic flight of
thought, when the steam of ideation is free to drift, by its own emotional
gravity, as it were, in an apparent 'lawless' fashion." Arthur
Koestler Aug 31: Hold on to what is
good, Even if it's a handful of earth. Hold on to what you believe, Even
if it's a tree that stands by itself. Hold on to what you must do,
Even if it's a long way from here. Hold on to your life, Even if
it's easier to let go. Hold on to my hand, Even if I've gone away
from you. "Hold On" A Pueblo Indian Prayer Sept 1; “Until one is
committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always
ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is
one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and
splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then
providence moves too, all sorts of things occur to help one that would
never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the
decision raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings
and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come
their way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has
genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!” Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe Sept 2: "Tend to your
vital heart, and all you worry about will be solved." Rumi Sept 3: "There's
Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead
Armadillos" Jim Hightower Sept 4: "If we didn't
live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over
precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt; but already
should be faded, fatalistic and aged." Virginia Woolf Sept 5: "Whether you
and I and a few others will renew the world some day remains to be seen.
But within ourselves we must renew it each day." Herman
Hesse Sept 6: "Another
aspect of the vision quest is the encounter of demons. Our demons
are our own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the
ubiquity of the spirit. And as each of these demons is conquered in
a vision quest, the consciousness of the quester is enlarged, and more of
the world is encompassed. Basically the vision quest involves
getting past your own limitations, which are within even as they appear to
be without. They are symbolized in myth as monsters and demons, and
in each age the characteristics change; because as a people changes, so do
its limitations. " Joseph Campbell Sept 7: Holy Spirit giving
life to all life, moving all creatures, root of all things, washing them
clean, wiping out their mistakes, healing their wounds, you are our true
life, luminous, wonderful, awakening the heart from its ancient
sleep." Hildegard von Bingen Sept 8 "The only way
to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul
grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself."
Oscar Wilde Sept 9 "We conceal it
from ourselves in vain--we must always love something. In those matters
seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man
cannot possibly live for a moment without it." Blaise Pascal Sept 10 “Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.” The Dalai Lama Sept 11“I cling to my
imperfection, as the very essence of my being”
Anatole France, The Garden of Epicurus, 1894 Sept 12 "It is amazing
that our souls--our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and
visions of an eternal world--are contained within these temporal bodies.
No wonder suffering is part of the human condition." Marion
Woodman Sept 13 "In everyone's
life at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by
an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those
people who rekindle the human spirit." Albert Schweitzer Sept 14 "The shoe that
fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits
all cases. " Carl Jung Sept 15 “Let life happen
to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.” Rainer Maria Rilke Sept 16 "Anybody can
they say they are being "spiritual" -- and they are, because
everybody has some type and level of concern. Let us therefore see
their actual conception, in thought and action, and see how many
perspectives it is in fact concerned with, and how many perspectives it
actually takes into account, and how many perspectives it attempts to
integrate, and thus let us see how deep and how wide runs that bodhisattva
vow to refuse rest until all perspectives whatsoever are liberated into
their own primordial nature. " Ken Wilber Sept 17 If one advances
confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavours to live the
life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in
common hours." Henry David Thoreau Sept 18 "What must I
give more death to today, in order to generate more life? What do I know
should die, but am hesitant to allow to do so? What must die in me in
order for me to love? What not-beauty do I fear? Of what use is the power
of the not-beautiful to me today? What should die today? What should live?
What life am I afraid to give birth to? If not now, when?" Clarissa
Pinkola Estes Sept 19 "Rain! whose
soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of
grandeur the very mountains." Henry Ward Beecher Sept 20 "It is an
ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our
way." Rollo May Sept 21 "Courage is
not the towering oak That sees storms come and go, It is the fragile
blossom That opens in the snow" Alice MacKenzie Swaim Sept 23 Too lazy to be
ambitious, I let the world take care of itself. Ten days' worth of rice in
my bag; a bundle of twigs by the fireplace. Why chatter about delusion and
enlightenment? Listening to the night rain on my roof, I sit comfortably,
with both legs stretched out." Ryokan Sept 24 "Events in the
past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and
those which do not matter." William Ralph Inge Sept 25 "When the
first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand
pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of
fairies." James M. Barrie Sept 26 "You are not
here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live
more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and
achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if
you forget this errand. " Woodrow Wilson Sept 27 "The choice to
follow love through to its completion is the choice to seek completion
within ourselves. The point at which we shut down on others is the point
at which we shut down on life. We heal as we heal others, and we heal
others by extending our perceptions past their weaknesses. Until we have
seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who that person is.
Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what
love is. Forgiving others is the only way to forgive ourselves, and
forgiveness is our greatest need. " --Illuminata, Marianne
Willamson Sept 28 "The heart is
forever inexperienced." Henry David Thoreau Sept 29 "Time has been
transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it
has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
" Kahlil Gibran Sept 30 "The moment
one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of
things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole
stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all
manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which
no man could have dreamed would have come his way." Goethe Oct 1 "October is
the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is
the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations
above them once again." Hal Borland Oct 2 "The right way
to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings."
C. G. Jung Oct 3 "... the
search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is
so difficult to find them." Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One
Hundred Years of Solitude Oct 4 "The real
questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you
like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a
jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with' only to discover that
they are still there. The real questions refuse to be placated. They barge
into your life at the times when it seems most important for them to stay
away. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most
inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly,
most often against your will." Ingrid Bengis Oct 5 "Don't be
dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before we can meet again.
And meeting again after a moment or lifetime is certain for those who are
friends. " Richard Bach Oct 6 "I have a
million yards of children out in the world. I am a professional
birth-giver. I give birth every day: to sorrow, joy, work, fabrics, bread,
sometimes even thoughts. " Armi Ratia Oct 7 "Anyone can
become angry. That is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the
right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right
way... that is not easy." Aristotle Oct 8 "To send light
into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist."
Robert Schumann Oct 9 "Just as
appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is
not discernible at the beginning. " Igor Stravinsky Oct 10 "The nurture
for telling stories comes from the might and endowments of my people who
have gone before me. In my experience, the telling moment of the story
draws its power from a towering column of humanity joined one to the other
across time and space, elaborately dressed in the rags and robes or
nakedness of their time, and filled to the bursting with life still being
lived. If there is a single source of story and the numen of story, this
long chain of humans is it." Clarissa Pinkola Estes Oct 12 "No sooner met
but they looked; No sooner looked but they loved; No sooner
loved but they sighed; No sooner sighed but they asked one another
the reason; No sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy.
" William Shakespeare Oct 13 "It's
important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that
they know what you won't stand for." Mary H. Waldrip Oct 14 "It takes a
lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace
the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.
There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement
there is life, and in change there is power." Alan Cohen Oct 15 "If people can
be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped
that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men
better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards
oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are
all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we
inflict upon our own natures." Carl Jung Oct 16 "Every heart
sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who
wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes
a poet." Plato Oct 17 "Sometimes
when I get up in the morning, I feel very peculiar. I feel like I've just
got to bite a cat! I feel like if I don't bite a cat before sundown, I'll
go crazy! But then I just take a deep breath and forget about it. That's
what is known as real maturity." Snoopy Oct 18 "Pity is the
experience of meeting pain with fear. It makes one want to change
the givens of the moment...But when we touch the same pain with love,
letting it be as it is, meeting it with mercy instead of fear and hatred,
then that is compassion." Stephen Levine Oct 19 "How am I
fallen from myself, for a long time now I have not seen the Prince of
Chang in my dreams." Khoung-Fou-Tseu Oct 20 "In dreams
begins responsibility." William Butler Yeats Oct 21 "But it is a
curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have
guessed, once or twice -- guessed and refused to believe -- that
everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified
shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no
return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own
black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its
children. . . ." from Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas
Pynchon Oct 22 "Crooked spin can't come to rest, I'm damaged bad at best, she'll decide what she wants; probably be the last to know, no one says until it shows, see how it ends- they want you or they don't, say yes..." Elliott Smith -- Rest peacefully, tender anti-hero. Oct 23 "What would it be like if you
lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that
you are a Masterpiece unfolding, every second of every day, a work of art
taking form with every breath."" Thomas Crum Oct 25 "Music gives a soul to the
universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to
everything." Plato Oct 26 “Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.” Rumi
Oct 27 "Who has not at one time or another felt a sourness, wrath, selfishness, envy and pride, which he could not tell what to do with, or how to bear, rising up in him without his consent, casting a blackness over all his thoughts, and then as suddenly going off again, either by the cheerfulness of the sun or air, or some agreeable accident, and again at times as suddenly returning upon him? Sufficient indications are these to every man that there is a dark guest within him, concealed under the cover of flesh and blood, often lulled asleep by worldly light and amusements, yet such as will, in spite of everything, show itself... It is exceeding good and beneficial to us to discover this dark, disordered fire of our soul; because when rightly known and rightly dealt with, it can as well be made the foundation of heaven as it is of hell." William Law Oct 28 "Normal day,
let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you,
bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare
and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always
be so." Mary Jean Iorn Oct 29 "I found that
what I had desired all my life was not to live--if what others are doing
is called living--but to express myself. I realized that I had never the
least interest in living, but only in this which I am doing now, something
which is parallel to life, of it at the same time, and beyond it."
Henry Miller Oct 30 "You can tear
a poem apart to see what makes it tick... You're back with the mystery of
having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and
gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash
or thunder in." Dylan Thomas Oct 31 "Once more we
need to see what writing is. We need to step away from all the business.
We need to step to the personal. This is what I mean by flight. Business
has become too heavy, too dominant. We need to remember friends, that we
write deeply out of friendship, that we write to friends. We need to
regain some of the energy, as writers and as readers, that people have on
the Internet when for the first time they e-mail, when they discover that
they can write anything, even to a stranger, even the most personal on
matters. What they discover that strangers can communicate to each
other." kathy acker Nov 1"It is one
thing to sing the beloved. Another, alas,/ to invoke that hidden,
guilty river-god of the blood./ Her young lover, whom she knows from
far away- what does he know/ the lord of desire who often, up from
the depths of his solitude,/ even before she could soothe him, and
as though she didn't exist,/ held up his head, ah, dripping with the
unknown,/ erect, and summoned the night to an endless uproar./
Oh the Neptune inside our blood, with his appalling trident./ Oh the
dark wind from his breast out of that spiraled conch./ Listen to the
night as it makes itself hollow." R.M. Rilke Nov 2 "Confidence is
a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom." William Pitt, Earl
of Chatham Nov 3 "The spiritual
virtue of a sacrament is like light,--although it passes among the impure,
it is not polluted." Saint Augustine Nov 4 “There are so
many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death.”
Kenneth Patchen Nov 5 "All these
stammerings, exclamations, slurrings, murmurs, rumblings, cooings, and
laughter, all this noise we make when we are together makes it possible to
view us as struggling, together, to jam the unequivocal voice of the
outsider: the facilitator of communication, the prosopopeia of
maximal elimination of noise, so as to hear the distant rumble of the
world & it's demons in the midst of the ideal city of human
communication." Alphonso Lingis Nov 6 "To fulfill a
dream, to be allowed to seat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to
create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As
everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet
designed to keep body and soul together." Bette Davis Nov 7 "Thirst drove
me down to the water where I drank the moon’s reflection." Rumi Nov 8 "Most people
guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it." Rumi Nov 9 "Dance, when
you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off.
Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance,
when you’re perfectly free. " Rumi Nov 10 "Let yourself
be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. " Rumi Nov
11 "Let us not be
particular & sectional. The poet's mind & the scorpion's tail rise
in glory from the same earth." Gibran Nov 12 "Do not
remember the former things, or consider the things of old. I am
about to do a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. The
wild animals will honor me, the jackals and the ostriches; for I
give water in the wilderness, rivers in the desert, to give drink to my
chosen people, the people whom I formed for myself so that they might
declare my praise. " Isaiah 43:18 Nov 13 "We work in
the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have. Our doubt is our
passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of
art." Henry James Nov 14 "Vision looks
inward and becomes duty. Vision looks outward and becomes aspiration.
Vision looks upward and becomes faith." Rabbi Stephen S. Wise Nov
16 "Now, on the
road to freedom, I was pausing for a moment near Temuco and could hear the
voice of the water that had taught me to sing. " Pablo
Neruda Nov 17 "Arriving at
one goal is the starting point to another." Fyodor
Dostoevski Nov 18 "Our birth is
but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life's
star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar; Not in entire
forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do
we come from God, who is our home." William Wordsworth Nov 19 "...[W]hat
Jung called 'the moral obligation' to live out and to express what one has
learned in the descent or ascent to the wild Self. This moral obligation
he speaks of means to live what we perceive, be it found in the psychic
Elysian fields, the isles of the dead, the bone deserts of the psyche, the
face of the mountain, the rock of the sea, the lush underworld - anyplace
where La Que Sabe breathes upon us, changing us. Our work is to show we
have been breathed upon - to show it, give it out, sing it out, to live
out in the topside world what we have received through our sudden knowings,
from body, from dreams and journeys of all sorts." Clarissa
Pinkola Estes Nov 21 "History has
demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered
heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they
refused to become discouraged by their defeats." B. C.
Forbes Nov 24 "If I were to
wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the
passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and
ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And
what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as
possibility!" Soren Kierkegaard Nov 25 "Our errors
are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so
certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of
heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their
behalf." William James Nov 26 "Myth is the
hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still
unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there...
Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words." Italo
Calvino Nov 27 "Nobody has
ever measured, not even poets, how much the human heart can hold."
Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald Nov 28 "[Praying to
God] I am here taking a stand for what I believe is right. But now I
am afraid. The people are looking to me for leadership, and if I stand
before them without strength and courage, they too will falter. I am at
the end of my powers. I have nothing left. I’ve come to the point where
I can’t face it alone. - - At that moment I experienced the presence of
the Divine as I had never experienced Him before." Martin
Luther King Nov 29-30 "You kiss a
beautiful mouth, and a key turns the lock of your fear. " Rumi Dec 1 "In the recent
experiment, scientists took a photon, a particle of light, split it into
two photons, and then sent the identical twins travelling in opposite
directions, north and south of Geneva, through fibre-optical telephone
lines. When the two particles were about seven miles apart, each was
confronted with a fork in the road and had to decide which of two paths to
follow, a short one or a long one. Inevitably, the scientists found,
the two particles would make the same decision. If the first particle
chose path A, then its twin would do the same thing. This apparent
connection between the particles was what Einstein derided as ''spooky
action at a distance.'' How does one photon ''know'' what the other is
doing?" George Johnson, The Unspeakable Things That
Particles Do Dec 3 Dec 4 "The shadow is
both the awful thing that needs redemption, and the suffering redeemer who
can provide it." Liz Green Dec 5 "The heroic
hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet,
challenging us to be true to ourselves.... Some little, unassuming,
unobtrusive choice presents itself before us slyly and craftily, glib and
insinuating, in the modest garb of innocence. to yield to its
blandishments is so easy." Benjamin Cardozo Dec 7 "Fill your
bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will
blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work,
then step back. The only path to serenity." Tao Te Ching Dec 8 "There is no
reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many people
live such an unreal life. They take the images outside them for reality
and never allow the world within to assert itself." Herman
Hesse Dec 9 "They're
black, they're brown, they're up, they're down * They're in, they're out,
they're all about! * They're far, they're near, they're gone, they're
here! * They're quick and slick, they're insincere! * Beware! Beware! Be a
very wary bear * A heffalump or woozle is very confusil * A heffalump or
woozle's very sly! * They come in ones and twosles but if they so choosles
* Before your eyes you'll see them multiply * They're extraordinary so
better be wary * Because they come in ev'ry shape and size * If honey's
what you covet, you'll find that they love it * Because they'll guzzle up
the thing you prize * Beware! Beware! Be a very wary bear" The
Heffalump Trap, from Adventures with Pooh Dec 10 "Things are as
they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no
comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly
arranged constellations. " Alan W. Watts Dec 11 "Our mind is
capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it.
Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new
insights begin. " Herman Hesse Dec 13 ". . . even
the enlightened person . . . is never more than his own limited ego before
the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who
encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and
vast as the sky." Carl Jung, Answer to Job Dec 14 "As the moon
retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a
curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the
fool." Akhenaton (d. c.1354 bc), Egyptian king Dec 15 "Since Time is
not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth
and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing." Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe Dec 16 "Argue for
your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours." Richard
Bach Dec 17 "You are led
through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful
spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from
possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn
from them. You're always free to change your mind and choose a
different future, or a different past." Richard Bach Dec 18 "You are never
given a wish without being given the power to make it true. You may
have to work for it, however." Richard Bach Dec 19"The bond that
links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each
other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same
roof." Richard Bach Dec 20 "One day seven
years ago I found myself saying to myself -- I can't live where I want to
-- I can't go where I want to go -- I can't do what I want to -- I can't
even say what I want to ... I decided I was a very stupid fool not to at
least paint as I wanted to. " Georgia O'Keeffe, 1923 Dec 23 "Consider the
darkness and the great cold In this vale which resounds with mystery.
" Brecht, The Threepenny Opera Dec 24th
– Jan 24th (The Gospel According to Shug) Jan 26 "If you're
really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world,
your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break;
its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold ever-more
wonders." Andrew Harvey Jan 27 "We're the
bridge across forever, arching above the sea, adventuring for our
pleasure, living mysteries for the fun of it, choosing disasters triumphs
challenges impossible odds, testing ourselves over and again, learning
love and love and LOVE!" Richard Bach Jan 28 "Most
importantly, watch out for the dark side of your own idealism and of your
moral sense. Both come from our arsenal of natural instincts. And both
easily degenerate into an excuse for attacks on others. When our righteous
indignation breathes the flames of anger against a 'villain,' we all too
often become a fang in nature's scheme of tooth and claw. No martians or
heavenly saviors will arrive to save us from our inborn evil. We must
battle the nature outside of us and within us in order to save our
selves." Howard Bloom Jan 30 "...all acts
are expressions of love, either as skillful statements or calls for love
in disguised forms. Love is the power that moves the universe, and is the
aching need of our world. If only we stood for love as we have for
fear!" Alan Cohen Jan 31 "Blessed are
they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see
nothing." Camille Pissarro Feb 2 "I would do
what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and
having my will, I should be contented; and when one is contented, there is
no more to be desired; and when there is no more to be desired, there is
an end of it. " Don Quixote, Cervantes Feb 4 "How can one's
heart and brain stand all the things that are crowded into them?". Robert
Schumann Feb 11 "When one does
not love too much, one does not love enough." Blaise Pascal Feb 12 "All that we
see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream." Edgar Allan Poe Feb 13 "And one by
one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that
unites us." Pablo Neruda Feb 14 "To love is to
tilt with the lightning, two bodies routed by a single honey's
sweet." Pablo Neruda Feb 15 "When I think
of you, fireflies in the marsh rise like the soul's jewels, lost to
eternal longing, abandoning my body." Izumi Shikibu Feb 16 "We have only
to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the
more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we
shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then
take us in its more than human arms. " Teilhard de Chardin Feb 18 "the bed is
too small for my tired head - bring me a hill soft with trees - tuck a
cloud up under my chin - lord, blow the moon out please" Hem,
Rabbit Songs Feb 19 “What you risk
reveals what you value.” Jeanette
Winterson Feb 21 "In the depth
of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible
summer." Albert Camus Feb 22 "If you have a
talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it
out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going
broke." Brendan Francis Feb 23 "Keep away
from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do
that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become
great." Mark Twain Feb 24 "Live out of
your imagination, not your history." Stephen Covey Feb 26 "When patterns
are broken, new worlds emerge." Tuli Kupferberg Feb 27 "Work is love
made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it
is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the
temple and take alms of those who work with joy." Kahlil
Gibran Feb 28 "The search
for meaning is not limited to science: it is constant and continuous--all
of us engage in it during all our waking hours the search continues even
in our dreams. There are many ways of finding meaning, and there are no
absolute boundaries separating them. One can find meaning in poetry as
well as in science in the contemplations of a flower as well as in the
grasp of an equation. We can be filled with wonder as we stand under the
majestic dome of the night sky and see the myriad lights that twinkle and
shine in its seemingly infinite depths. We can also be filled wit awe as
we behold the meaning of the formulae that define the propagation of light
in space, the formation of galaxies, the synthesis of chemical elements,
and the relation of energy, mass and velocity in the physical universe.
The mystical perception of oneness and the religious intuition of a Divine
intelligence are as much a construction of meaning as the postulation of
the universal law of gravitation." Ervin Laszlo Feb 29 "Experience is
an intact fruit, core and flesh and rind of it; once cut open, entered, it
can't be the same, can it? Though that is the dream of the poem: as if we
could look out through that moment's blushed skin." Mark
Doty March 2 "The beginning
is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young
and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being
formed and the desired impression more readily taken." Plato (The
Republic) Mar 3 "In the first
grade, I already knew the pattern of my life. I didn't know the living of
it, but I knew the line… From the first day in school until the day I
graduated, everyone gave me one hundred plus in art. Well, where do you go
in life? You go to the place where you got one hundred plus." Louise
Nevelson Mar 4 "Both
abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel
realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will
tend...when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but
are grateful for the abundance that's present--love, health, family,
friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us
pleasure--the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on
earth." Sarah Ban Breathnach Mar 5 "When we must
deal with problems, we instinctively refuse to try the way that leads
through darkness and obscurity. We wish to hear only of unequivocal
results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought
about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But
to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment
that consciousness can offer. " Carl Jung Mar 6 "It began in
mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful
country lies in between." Diane Ackerman Mar 8 "I don't want
to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of
it. I want to have lived the
width of it as well." Diane Ackerman Mar 9 "Like Beauty
embracing the Beast, our beauty is deepened as our beastliness is honored.
The poet Rainer Maria Rilke realized this when he said he feared that if
his devils left him, his angels would take flight as well."
excerpt from Meeting the Shadow by Connie Zwieg Mar 10 "If you do
not change direction, you may end up where you are heading." Lao-Tzu Mar 11 "The most
common form of despair is not being who you are." Soren
Kierkegaard Mar 12 "If you bring
forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do
not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will
destroy you." Jesus Mar 13 |