Author: Mark J. Chmiel

Today’s One-Liner (#99)

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.   –Christopher Isherwood and Swami Prabhavananda, How to Know God: The…

Today’s One-Liner (#98)

Consider yourself fortunate if, in the midst of such a whirlwind, you possess a guiding intelligence within yourself. –Marcus Aurelius, in Pierre Hadot, The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Today’s One-Liner (#96)

I boasted to Rakitin that I gave an onion, but I’ll say it differently to you: in my whole life I’ve given just one little onion, that’s how much good I’ve done. –Grushenka to Alyosha,…

Today’s One-Liner (#95)

I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time to work at my real work. –Natalie Goldberg, Writing down the Bones

Today’s One-Liner (#94)

Things that give you pleasure—When someone you don’t like meets with some misfortune, you’re pleased even though you know this is wicked of you.  –Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book, translated by Meredith McKinney

Today’s One-Liner (#93)

This is something that requires thorough examination, with a thousand days  of practice for training and ten thousand days of practice for refinement. –Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, translated by Thomas Cleary