I know that the best time to see them is in that perfect hour before sunset when the sun sinks low on the horizon like a ripe peach and sends shafts of gold bursting through the trees. The "in between," I call it. No longer day, not yet night; some other place and time when … Continue reading Quote for Today Hazel Gaynor
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Quote for Today: Antony Sher
As we're leaving the King's Arms Hotel after Sunday lunch, I watch a beautiful white dove walking down the wet road. A car approaches and the bird accidentally turns into the wheel rather than away from it. A gentle crunch. The car passes. A shape like a discarded napkin left in the road. Still perfectly … Continue reading Quote for Today: Antony Sher
Quote for Today: Kevin Codd
I hear a swelling swoosh; from the south a bullet train whizzes into view on the tracks, knifes through the landscape in a matter of moments, then disappears with a whoosh. It has just covered in a few seconds what has taken me hours to walk. That very fast train reminds me that, as a … Continue reading Quote for Today: Kevin Codd
Quote for Today: Anthony de Mello
Love springs from awareness. It is only inasmuch as you see someone as he or she really is here and now, and not as they are in your memory or your desire or in your imagination or projection, that you can truly love them. Otherwise, it is not the person that you love but … Continue reading Quote for Today: Anthony de Mello
Quote for Today: Louise Erdrich
The music was more than music- at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous. Those powerful moments of true knowledge that we have to paper over with daily life. The music tapped the back of our terrors, too. Things we'd lived … Continue reading Quote for Today: Louise Erdrich
Quote for Today: Criss Jami
Quiet people always know more than they seem. Although very normal, their inner world is by default fronted mysterious and therefore assumed weird. Never underestimate the social awareness and sense of reality in a quiet person; they are some of the most observant, absorbent persons of all. ― Criss Jami, Healology Image © Qammer Wazir … Continue reading Quote for Today: Criss Jami
Quote for Today: Theodore Roethke
This shaking keeps me steady. I should know. What falls away is always. And is near. I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go. ― from "The Waking", Theodore Roethke, The Collected Poems Image: Tightrope 1 © Tom a la Rue with CCLicense
