Today’s One-Liner (#85)
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. –Koheleth, 1:9, King James…
Month: January 2025
Today’s One-Liner (#84)
Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant. –Moshe Feldenkrais
Russian Reflections on Kindness
1. When nineteenth-century novelists exposed the hypocrisy of cruel people pretending to be kind, observed Nadezhda Mandelstam, they testified to the unquestioned acceptance of kindness as a virtue. As La Rochefoucauld observed, hypocrisy is the…
Today’s One-Liner (#83)
Constantly forge body and mind. –Miyamoto Musashi, Nine Articles, in John Stevens, Budo Secrets: Teachings of the Martial Arts Masters