Quote for Today: Dag Hammarskjöld
In the point of rest at the center of our being, we encounter a world where all things are at rest in the same way. Then a tree becomes …
Quote for Today: Mark Twain
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: …
Quote for Today: Joseph Campbell
Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow …
Quote for Today: Alan Dressler
When I talk to audiences about the size and age of the cosmos, people often say, “It makes me feel so insignificant.” I answer, “The bigger and more impersonal the …
Quote for Today: Octavio Paz
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears. —Octavio Paz Image by adrian prieto cecilio from Pixabay
Quote for Today: Rebecca Solnit
That (labyrinth)…became a world whose rules I lived by, and I understood the moral of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes …
Quote for Today: Franz Kafka
Your will is free means: it was free when it wanted the desert, it is free since it can choose the path that leads to crossing the desert, it …
Quote for Today: Becky Chambers
A moth was a caterpillar, once, but it no longer is a caterpillar. It cannot break itself back down, cannot metamorphose in reverse. To try to eat leaves again would …
Quote for Today: Bonnie Badenoch
It is rather paradoxical for our task-focused self when it isn’t the quality of the practice, but our honest and humble acceptance of the emerging moment, that prepares us for …
Quote for Today: Michael Pollan
People have traditionally turned to ritual to help them frame and acknowledge and ultimately even find joy in just such a paradox of being human – in the fact that …