Quote for Today: Rumi
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting …
Quote for Today: Rosemarie Garland Thomson
Now, Woolf calls her fictional bastion of male privilege Oxbridge, so I’ll call mine Yarvard. Even though she cannot attend Yarvard because she is a woman, Judith cheerfully applies …
Quote for Today: A.S. Byatt
This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, …
Quote for Today: Roumen Bezergianov
Artists, athletes, chess-players and anyone who loves their job know the feeling of losing one’s self in the current moment to full concentration. If we are more intentional in that …
Quote for Today: Maya Angelou
Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I’m not cute or built to suit a fashion model’s size But when I start to tell them, They think I’m telling lies. …
Quote for Today: George Whitman
I may disappear leaving behind me no worldly possessions – just a few old socks and love letters, and my windows overlooking Notre-Dame for all of you to enjoy, and …
Quote for Today: Gordon Hempton
Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything . . . It is the presence of time, undisturbed. It can be felt within the chest. Silence …
Quote for Today: A.S. Byatt
All the way from London, he had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the imagination of her. …
Quote for Today: Jean Vanier
Deep in our hearts there is a call to live in communion with others, a call to love, to create, to risk. But there is also that radical feeling of …
Quote for Today: Michael Meade
There will always be the facts of life to contend with, and there are times when the facts can become overwhelming. Yet, there is a poem at the heart of …