I'm sorry. I was just talking to the moon.
How much can you really trust the promise of a suicidal father?
He hated the idea of killing people he could not hate.
Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives.
Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives. That’s what it means to b...
At the time I was feeling hopeful, which now seems kind of sad and brave.
And what does it mean to waste time anyway? If you waste time is it lost forever?
Am I crazy? she asked. I feel like I am sometimes. Maybe, he said, rubbing her forehead. But don't worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you pay for having an imaginati...
Именно в этой главе он хвалит молодых монахов за упорство на пути к пробуждению и объясняет гранулярную природу времени: 6 400 099 980 моментов составляют один день. Цель его рассуждений — показать, ч...
This is what temporial stuttering FEELS LIKE like a stut stut STUTTERY RUSHING FORWARD in TIME WITHOUT a MOMENT OR an INSTANT TO DISTINGUISH ONE INSTANCE from THE next GROWING EVER LOUDER AND LOUDER W...
You can’t hold on to water or keep it from leaking away.
Yes, I told her. I'm angry, so what?..... I went on, giving her an executive summary of my crappy life.....So of course I feel angry, I said angrily. What do you expect? It was a stupid thing to ask.Y...
When I stand on the edge of a tall place I feel like I'm on the edge of time, peering into forever. The question 'What if...?' rises up in my mind, and it's exciting because I know that in the next in...
What does separation look like? A wall? A wave? A body of water? A ripple of light or a shimmer of subatomic particles, parting? What does it feel like to push through? Her fingers press against the r...
Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time . . . In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate.
Time interacts with attention in funny ways.
This is the chapter in which he praises his young monks for their commitment to a path of awakening and explicates the granular nature of time: the 6,400,099,980 moments40 that constitute a single day...
Stocking up is what our robust Americans called it, laughing nervously, because profligate abundance automatically evokes its opposite, the unspoken specter of dearth.
Somewhere Dōgen wrote about the number of moments in the snap of a finger. I don’t remember the exact figure, only that it was large and seemed quite arbitrary and absurd, but I imagine that when I am...
She smiled. Life is full of stories. Or maybe life is only stories. Good night, my dear Nao.