Wednesday ~ March 22, 2023

Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you. Enter eagerly into the treasure house that is within you, you will see the things that are in heaven; for there is but one single entry to them both. The ladder that leads to the Kingdom is hidden within your soul... dive into yourself, and in your soul, you will discover the stairs by which to ascend.

Saint Issac Nineveh, 7th century

Monday ~ December 19, 2022

 Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. 

Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

~ William Wordsworth

Sunday ~ December 18, 2022

It is not suffering that is precious, but the concentric pearlescence with which we contain it. The raw grit of anguish will never be in short supply. There is enough of it in the happiest life to serve these instructive purposes., and there always will be. We are more sympathetic to Holocaust survivors than to malcontent children of privilege, but we all have our darkness, and the trick is making something exalted of it.

Andrew Solomon, b. 1963

Sunday ~ November 27, 2022

 Take this to heart: You must gain control of your habits; 

First over stomach, then sleep, and then luxury, and anger.

What brings you shame, do not do unto others, nor by yourself.

The highest of duties is honor od self.

Let justice be practiced in words as in deeds;

Then make the habit, never inconsiderately to act;

Neither forget that death is appointed to all;

That possessions here gladly gathered, here must be left.

Pythagoras, 570 - 495 BCE

Wednesday ~ November 23, 2022

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A good life of good days lived in the senses is not enough. The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.

Annie Dillard, b. 1945

Tuesday ~ November 22, 2022

 Color - Caste - Denomination - 

These - are Time's Affair - 

Death's diviner Classifying

Does not know they are -

As in sleep - All Hue forgotten -

Tenets - put behind -

Death's large - Democratic fingers

Rub away the Brand -

Emily Dickinson, 1830 - 1886

Monday ~ November 21, 2022

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms or books that are written in a foreign tongue. The point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live your way some distant day into the answers.

Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875 - 1926