Thursday, March 13, 2014

Spring and other concerns

“The problem, if you love it, is as beautiful as the sunset.” - Krishnamurti

“Where would the gardener be if there were no weeds?” – Chuang Tzu

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“For aren't you and I gods? Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Release life's rapture. Everything is blooming. Everything is flying. Everything is screaming. Laughter. Running.” – Vladimir Nabokov

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.” – Charles Dickens

“If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then his it a third time – a tremendous whack.” – Winston Churchill

“Forget my sins upon the wind, My hobo soul will rise.” – Gillian Welch, “I’m Not Afraid to Die.”

The poet Muriel Rukeyser said the universe is composed of stories, not of atoms. The physicist Werner Heisenberg declared that the universe is made of music, not of matter.

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