August 2010
Crashingly Beautiful: To Err is Human →
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In the past, when I began to study Zen,
it was all a mistake. Wandering through numberless
mountains and rivers,
I wanted to find
something to know. (It’s all clear in hindsight.) It is hard to understand it
because talk about “no-mind”
just brings more confusion.The teacher has…
“Gone mad is what they say, and sometimes Run mad, as if mad is a different direction, like west; as if mad is a different house you could step into, or a separate country entirely. But when you go mad you don’t go any other place, you stay where you are. And somebody else comes in.”
—Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (via frenchtwist)
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano (via kissmeimlazy)
