November 2011
October 2011
Listen
I couldn’t breathe without music. I mean that. I’ve got a cup of green tea and an open window and Vietnam-era Americana music playing. So appreciative of every instant of my life.
Bob Dylan - Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie
Bob Dylan
Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie - Bob Dylan
“So shall we come to look at the world with new eyes. It shall answer the endless inquiry of the intellect, — What is truth? and of the affections, — What is good? by yielding itself passive to the educated Will. … Build, therefore, your own world. As fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that will unfold its great proportions. A correspondent revolution in things will attend the influx of the spirit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you.”
—Friedrich Nietzche
“Zen prevents you from nothing. It opens everything that is potential in you. If you have a potentiality of being a painter, Zen will open it — you may not have been aware of it. The same is true about music or dance, or scientific exploration. Any kind of original experiences, Zen allows you. It is affirmative, the most affirmative experience in life…. You start moving into a certain direction. Suddenly that direction becomes so full of life, so attractive, that you can devote everything to it.”
—Osho
Sunday Morning
“Why should she give her bounty to the dead?
What is divinity if it can come
Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
Shall she not find in comforts of the sun,
In pungent fruit and bright, green wings, or else
In any balm or beauty of the earth,
Things to be cherished like the thought of heaven?
Divinity must live within herself:
Passions of rain, or moods in falling snow;
Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued
Elations when the forest blooms; gusty
Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights;
All pleasures and all pains, remembering
The bough of summer and the winter branch.
These are the measures destined for her soul.”
- Wallace Stevens
