Today’s One-Liner (#39)

« Dire que j’ai gâché des années de ma vie, que j’ai voulu mourir, que j’ai eu mon plus grand amour, pour une femme qui ne me plaisait pas, qui n’était pas mon genre !…

Today’s One-Liner (#38)

But I want to seek out a means of going to heaven by a little way, a way that is very straight, very short, and totally new. –Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul

Today’s One-Liner (#37)

One advantage of knowing the classics is that no matter the what situation you might find yourself in, you’ll remember that someone else was there before you. –Kenneth Rexroth, quoted in Anne Waldman and Laura…

Writing and Reading Inter-Are/2

Johnson made such chains of learned reference in his writing, and his written works are the outgrowth of the kind of reading Johnson did, in which fragments of writing can be distributed under preexisting topics…

Isn’t This the Truth?

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, a book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met.  —Yoshida Kenkō, Essays in Idleness, translated by…

Today’s One-Liner (#33)

Worry is probably the most energy-inefficient activity the mind is prone to. –Eknath Easwaran, Seeing with the Eyes of Love: Reflections on a Classic of Christian Mysticism, 159 

Fidelity

I am not Orthodox, nor am I religiously dogmatic, and my anti-secular views are very far from any proselytizing tendencies. But I am a son of Hillel Zeitlin and a grandson of great-grandfathers… the God-experience…