Basho's Pond

Better Man

2012-01-28T00:42:00.000+08:00

To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.

-Sidney Poitier

Sailing into the inner seas

2012-01-25T21:24:00.000+08:00

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

-Thomas Merton

Dwelling in possibility

2012-01-20T12:01:00.000+08:00

The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there.

~Monica Baldwin

Counting stars

2012-01-19T00:14:00.001+08:00

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

-Oscar Wilde

A bird sings

2012-01-18T07:52:00.000+08:00

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

-Rabindranath Tagore

Hopeful

2012-01-17T07:58:00.001+08:00

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Anne Lamott

The Path

2012-01-09T11:44:00.000+08:00

I have found the true path. I shall not seek warmth by the fire. I shall be the flame.

Water's Edge

2012-01-08T15:18:00.000+08:00

You've been walking in circles, searching. Don't drink by the water's edge...
Throw yourself in. Become the water. Only then will your thirst end.

-Jeanette Berson

Three things

2012-01-07T15:15:00.000+08:00

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth.

-Buddha

Looking

2012-01-05T13:23:00.003+08:00

Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.

-Basil Bunting

Saraswati

2012-01-01T22:28:00.002+08:00

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

-Margaret Fuller

The Inner Sea

2011-12-28T21:50:00.002+08:00

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

-Victor Hugo

Twinkle

2011-12-23T21:21:00.002+08:00

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

-Wislawa Szymborska

Season's Flavor

2011-12-18T15:29:00.001+08:00

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

-Henry David Thoreau

Under the Plumeria Tree

2011-12-16T22:14:00.001+08:00

Alone with myself
The trees bend to caress me
The shade hugs my heart.

~Candy Polgar

Always Noel

2011-12-14T23:46:00.002+08:00

I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the world seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.

- Taylor Caldwell

Soft is strong

2011-12-05T22:53:00.001+08:00

Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.

Lao-tzu

Cosmic Current

2011-11-20T22:28:00.001+08:00

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

-Richard Wagner

Senses

2011-11-16T00:39:00.000+08:00

We live on the leash of our senses.

-Diane Ackerman

The Silent Pulse

2011-11-15T08:33:00.000+08:00

At the heart of each of us, whatever our imperfections, there exists a silent pulse of perfect rhythm, a complex of wave forms and resonances, which is absolutely individual and unique, and yet which connects us to everything in the universe. The act of getting in touch with this pulse can transform our personal experience and in some way alter the world around us.

-- George Leonard

Rice Wine

2011-11-13T20:50:00.001+08:00

When you write in prose, you cook the rice. When you write poetry, you turn rice into rice wine. Cooked rice doesn't change its shape, but rice wine changes both in quality and shape. Cooked rice makes one full so one can live out one's life span . . . wine, on the other hand, makes one drunk, makes the sad happy, and the happy sad. Its effect is sublimely beyond explanation.

- Wu Qiao

Wings

2011-11-05T22:36:00.000+08:00

The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.

-Meister Eckhart

Seeing

2011-10-30T00:59:00.002+08:00

The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

-Kahlil Gilbran

Tumble

2011-10-25T08:18:00.000+08:00

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.

Elizabeth Lawrence

Adornment for the soul

2011-10-21T23:56:00.000+08:00

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

~Epictetus