A miracle is a materialist’s idea of how to escape from his materialism.
— G. Bateson (1979, 232)
Author: gnox
High Art
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
— Thoreau, Walden, chp. 2
Sing language
Language is both music and instrument.
— Todd Lawson
The Guest
If you know you’re alive,
find the essence of life.
Life is the sort of guest
you don’t meet twice.— the Bijak of Kabir
Lasting
The reason the world is able to be lasting and enduring
Is because it does not live for itself.— Dao De Jing 7 (Ames)
Thanksgiving
Hunt for bounty with the net of gratitude.
— Rumi (Helminski 2000, 59)
The Big Bloom
Good and evil, dead and alive, everything blooms from one natural stem.
— Rumi (Helminski 2000, 111)
Untitled
When rivers enter the ocean, the waters lose their names.
—Chih-i (Cleary 1997c, 486)
Duty
Our duty is to strive for self-realization and we should lose ourselves in that aim.
— Gandhi (1926, 86)
One can do one’s duty only if one banishes all impatience and anxiety in regard to it.
— Gandhi (1926, 73)