catching up to myself (a tweet)

I feel “lucky” only once I realize I’ve been lucky all along. After all, luck’s the sort of thing that has precisely, and only, the meaning I give it.

for all we know (a tweet)

21 Tuesday Jun 2016

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For all we know, we’re still in utero.

a good start (a tweet)

20 Monday Jun 2016

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At the point when I no longer care whether it’s me who’s crazy, or everybody else–that’s when life gets interesting.

zen trick (a tweet)

30 Saturday Apr 2016

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If I’m at my best when I have no other choice, the trick must be to choose to have no choice, yes?

knowing (a tweet)

14 Thursday Apr 2016

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The knowing is beautiful. Thus, the struggle that brought you the knowing–mustn’t that also be beautiful?

clumsy (a tweet)

11 Monday Apr 2016

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Don’t worry that you’re clumsy. What else can you be? You wouldn’t be here, fumbling along this empty path, if you were already home.

serendipity (a tweet)

10 Sunday Apr 2016

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Never mind that we’re lost: it turns out that paradise is a place most easily found by accident.

why not

26 Saturday Dec 2015

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Don’t fear the future. Love it fiercely, blindly, the way you loved your babies before they were born. Why not?

dangerous (a tweet)

14 Monday Dec 2015

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We embody love simply by yielding to it. We let people in. We know it’s a dangerous neighborhood, but we leave the door open anyway.

Tigers at the Tiger Temple in Kanchanaburi, Thailand - 26 May 2013

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advantage (a tweet)

19 Friday Jun 2015

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Taking advantage of bad memory by preparing surprises for future self. (Just changed song order on iPod list—tomorrow this will wow me.)

sparks (a tweet)

03 Friday Apr 2015

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In the midst of all this, how strange to recall that our rages are firefly sparks when compared to the sun’s.

obstacle (a tweet)

23 Monday Mar 2015

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Sometimes I think the world will always remain just one big, blind yes away from seeing itself clearly.

How to Grow a Mandala (a youtube link)

14 Sunday Dec 2014

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How to Grow a Mandala: http://youtu.be/g16B64myG-E

peace (a tweet) (haiku)

22 Monday Sep 2014

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I must become peace:
the nimble crow that hovers
in the cyclone’s eye.

breathe (a quotation from Virgil) (a tweet)

17 Wednesday Sep 2014

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On a day like this I breathe a weary mantra:

“Hug the shore; let others try the deep.” –Virgil

both (quotation by Nassim Nicholas Taleb)

14 Thursday Aug 2014

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“Love without sacrifice is like theft.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#peace (a tweet)

01 Friday Aug 2014

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We’ll know peace only once we finally see that there’s no They, there’s only We. Nor any There, but only Here. Nor any time but Now.

@zerosumr (a tweet)

27 Sunday Jul 2014

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u know how i know yer Here, mijn schatje? Coz w/ yr death u finally taught me yr ineffable truth: that Here is an infinite place.

less ( a tweet)

25 Wednesday Jun 2014

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The joy of less: if I choose the narrow bed, any blanket will be wide enough to cover it.

chagrin (a tweet)

27 Tuesday May 2014

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In hard times especially, I find myself confronted by my trademark absurdity: that I’m far more desirous that god should know me than that I should know god.

blind (an extended tweet)

17 Saturday May 2014

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Clearly we’re all blind. We each “know” just one small part of the elephant. Thus, how absurd to be arguing with such fury when we really ought to be comparing notes.

time (a tweet)

04 Sunday May 2014

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I think it’s time we finally started believing in what we already know.

is this anything (an extended tweet)

11 Friday Apr 2014

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Some days I don’t feel like searching [through clover] for [four-leaf] metaphors. I want to tell this story straight, for once–but I honestly don’t know how. As it is, can you glimpse it, love? Could it be hiding, maybe, in the spaces between my words?