I’m studying mindfulness, that is to say: I’m studying to become more mindful. In theory it’s a piece of cake – – until one suddenly remembers that living is not some kind of theoretical activity, living is praxis; all the time, every day, here & now – – and then the stupid self-assured piece of…
Category: Mindfulness
this is the real secret of life –
– to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. Alan Watts You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf
White matter … (s) (cont.)
Yesterday I thought about explosive art, about making things new through destruction. Today I’m looking at things being tied down and together, on things being tied to no-thing, to space, white matter and dark space, like they are in the work of the Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota In the work “A Long Day” Chiharu Shiota has spun…
Pema Chödrön says:
– You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather… . .
Essay on What I Think About Most
I’m reading Anne Carson today; it’s a slow and difficult process, like trying to find a path through a deep and dark forest. I have to retrace my own steps all the time. Her texts are full of sadness, sorrow, and melancholic pain, but they do also unveil glimpses of hitherto unknown beauty. And she…
You can never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough
Did I ever tell you how much I like Anne Carson? Have a look at this: I hate traveling … you don’t think until you stumble on something, traveling makes you stumble all the time. Its spooky. Stumbling is good for writing … – Anne Carson (2001) Quad (1981) a television play by Samuel…
A Thousand Mornings
There’s something about the ocean – Mary Oliver (b. 1935) I have just recently posted the two ocean-poems; “Any fool can get into an ocean” & “Thing Language” by Jack Spicer. Today I’ve viewed the ocean from a new perspective, through the eyes of Mary Oliver in her wonderful new book of poems called A Thousand Mornings….
something always occurs
I’m still reading writers on writing. Here is quote from William Stafford: Every day I get up and look out the window, and something occurs to me, something always occurs to me. And if it doesn’t, I just lower my standards Why am I so interested in writers writings on writing? I suspect it to be…
If anybody is sleepy, let him go to sleep …
… some notes on Lecture on Nothing – an impressionistic summary of John Cage’s brilliant text Nothing more then nothing can be said. We make our lives by what we love. Being American, having been trained to be sentimental, I fought for noises … when the war came along, I decided to use only quiet sounds….
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