"Where are the keys that give birth to subtle understanding?
Each day we open our eyes having been called by the light of a familiar every day morning. It is at that moment that our eyes open to an entry of poetry which without question brings newness of life we cannot continue to take for granted.

At this finite point, reflection becomes attainable ( Read more... )

"During the disintegration of a civilization, two separate plays with different plots are being performed simultaneously side by side.  While an unchanging dominant minority is perpetually rehearsing its own defeat, fresh challenges are perpetually evoking fresh creative responses from newly recruited minorities, which proclaim their own creative ( Read more... )

"There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity. But the contradiction lies a little deeper than the mere conflict between the desire for security and the fact of change. If I want to be secure, that is, protected from the flux of life, I am wanting to be separate from life ( Read more... )

"There can be only patient endurance of the opposites which ultimately spring from your own nature. You yourself are a conflict that rages in itself and against itself in order to melt its incompatible substances, the male and the female, in the fire of suffering and thus create that form which is the goal of life. Everyone goes through this mill ( Read more... )

Instead of reading one of the 99 books on my plate, I'm moved to post a big WTF here.... I found this item by clicking through some of the links in Sustainable Ballard's calendar of local (Seattle) events:

The Martin Luther King County Labor Council (MLK-CLC) and the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) have joined the ( Read more... )

"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
  --Werner Heisenberg

Yes...humility, and reverence for the mysteries of life, but we Kant reach the future by remaining at this point (sorry, it was irresistible).

I awoke to a queer, unfamiliar sound on Saturday morning.  A low rumbling, its vibration penetrating through the fog at the threshold of waking and sleeping, reminding me enough of thunder that I thought it could be so, even after this endless drought called "summer" in California, but as the rumbling continued a fright grabbed me: bombs!  Were we ( Read more... )

"When I despair, I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it, always."

"It appears that the impossibility of full realization of Truth in this mortal body led some ancient seeker after Truth to ( Read more... )

"You're nothing like your grandmother ( Read more... )

Gandhi wrote the following in response to a person publicly criticizing Gandhiji's practice of nonviolent direct action by hartal (cessation of work, a strike), characterizing it as "divisive," and calling on him to promote a "larger symbiosis such as Buddha and Christ preached" in order to "bring the world to breathe and prosper together."  The ( Read more... )