Later on, I asked her [her mother], How does it feel?What?When you can't remember things. Does it frighten you? Do you feel sad?Well, not really. I have this condition, you see. It's called osteo...os...
It made me sad when I caught myself pretending that everybody out there in cyberspace cared about what I thought, when really nobody gives
If his medium had been words instead of war, he would have been a poet.
Hi! My name is Nao, and I am a time being. Do you know what a time being is? Well, if you give me a moment, I will tell you. A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and...
Fed on a media diet of really bad news, we live in a perpetual state of repressed panic. We are paralyzed by bad knowledge, from which the only escape is playing dumb. Ignorance becomes empowering bec...
Do you have a cat and is she sitting on your lap? Does her forehead smell like cedar trees and fresh sweet air?
Do not think that time simply flies away. Do not understand flying as the only function of time. If time simply flew away, a separation would exist between you and time. So if you understand time as o...
Blessed Stars, please make this world into a place where we will never again be forced to kill an enemy whom we cannot hate. Were such a thing to come about, I would not complain even if my body were...
Although he claimed not to understand matters of human conscience, it was precisely his own conscience that led him to question the status quo, and which would cost
Глубинные побуждения Вселенной позволили моей жизни длиться, за что я глубоко и смиренно благодарна.
When you beat a drum, you create NOW, when silence becomes a sound so enormous and alive it feels like you’re breathing in the clouds and the sky, and your heart is the rain and the thunder. Jiko says...
The moment I saw the gate I had a strong thought to turn around and throw myself headfirst down the steep stone steps or just let myself free-fall backward into the pillowy softness of eternity, and i...
Jiko looked out accross the ocean to where the water met the sky. A wave is born from the deep conditions of the ocean, she said. A person is born form the deep conditions of the world. A person pokes...
It's okay to have impossible goals, because if you follow your unreachable star no matter how hopeless or far, your heart will be peaceful when you're dead, even though you might be scorned and covere...
Ignorance. In this root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information overwhelms and knowledge has become synonymous with impotence.
I have to hurry up and write them down before I forget. I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then...
I don’t believe I exist, and soon I won’t. I am a time being about to expire.
But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It’s already then. Then is the opposite of now. So saying now obliterates its meaning, turning it into exactly what it isn’t.
But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.
But by spring, she had again yielded to the tug and tide of his mind, allowing its currents to carry her back across the continent and wash them up on the remote shores of his evergreen island..