quote-of-the-day :: Live as if you were already dead. (Zen admonition)

Live as if you were already dead.
                          (Zen admonition)

quote-of-the-day ::: there is no good or bad – just better. -markultra

there is no good or bad – just better. -markultra

poem-of-the-day :: Please Call Me by My True Names -Thich Nhat Hanh

Please Call Me by My True Names
Don't say that I will depart tomorrow -- even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone. I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive. I am the mayfly metamorphosing on the surface of the river. And I am the bird that swoops down to swallow the mayfly. I am the frog swimming happily in the clear water of a pond. And I am the grass-snake that silently feeds itself on the frog. I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones, my legs as thin as bamboo sticks. And I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda. I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat, who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate. And I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving. I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my hands. And I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to my people dying slowly in a forced-labor camp. My joy is like Spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth. My pain is like a river of tears, so vast it fills the four oceans. Please call me by my true names, so I can hear all my cries and my laughter at once, so I can see that my joy and pain are one. Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up, and so the door of my heart can be left open, the door of compassion. 1989

-Thich Nhat Hanh

word-of-the-day :: savvy

Main Entry: ¹sav·vy
Pronunciation: 'sa-vE
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): sav·vied; sav·vy·ing
Etymology: alteration of sabi know (in English-based creoles and pidgins), from Portuguese sabe he knows, from saber to know, from Latin sapere to be wise -- more at SAGE
Date: 1785
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quote-of-the-day :: It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task. -Robert Kennedy

It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.

-Robert Kennedy

quote-of-the-day :: We gain freedom when we have paid the full price. - Rabindranath Tagore

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price. -Rabindranath Tagore

quote-of-the-day ::: follow your own rhythm, listen to your own drum. - stella fuentes

follow your own rhythm, listen to your own drum. - stella fuentes