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With unfailing kindness, your life always presents
what you need to learn. Whether you stay home
or work in an office or whatever, the next teacher
is going to pop right up. ~ Charlotte Joko Beck

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Rumi, trans. by John Moyne & Coleman Barks

82

Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

I have tamed men of iron in my day, shall I not easily crush these men of butter? ~ Duke of Alba

We all have our fears, our demons, things that make us cry. Some days they join forces and attempt coups to push us into despondency.

On those days, the days I feel weak and sad and a little bit hopeless I think of the Duke of Alba - whoever he was - ( Read more... )

From an art installation by Jenny Holzer:

A single relationship can
poison every minute of the day,waking or sleeping.
When this drags on, you have
to question the sanity or the
criminality of those involved.
___________

This weekend will be difficult, this week. We've already argued over the phone. I already feel nerouvs and tense. As usual the ( Read more... )

Questions of the day follow -

From the Notebooks of Matte Laurids Brigge (Rilke):

We discover, indeed, that we do not know our part, we look for a mirror, we want to rub off the makeup and remove the counterfeit and be real. But somewhere a bit of mummery still sticks to us that we forget. A track of exaggeration remains in our eyebrows, we do ( Read more... )

I can't go back and look at the drivel I wrote when I first started this journal. I think I was in some Sufi poets/metaphysical phase, and some of my resulting thoughts unfortunately ended up here. However, I'm too lazy to make the entries private.
This is now a friends-locked journal. You're truly not missing much by not reading my friends-locked ( Read more... )