Three things cannot be retrieved:
The arrow once sped from the bow
The word spoken in haste
The missed opportunity.
Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam
Son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet
I do not dip the nib of my pen in the ink bottle but in life itself.
Blaise Cendrars
The true profession of man is to find his way to himself.
Hermann Hesse
"From the age of 6 I had a mania for drawing the forms of things. By the time I was 50 I had published an infinity of drawings, but all I have produced before the age of 70 is not worth taking into account. At 75 I learned a little about the structure of nature, of animals, plants and bees, birds, fishes and insects. In consequence when I was 80 I shall have made a little more progress. At 90 I shall certainly have reached a marvelous stage, and when I am 110, everything I do, be it but a line or a dot, will be alive."
Hokusai.
Out in the marsh reeds
A bird cries out in sorrow
As though it had recalled
Something better forgotten.
Kino Tsurayuki
How long does it take one voice to reach an other?
Carolyn Forché
"[...] it is important to understand, not intellectually but *actually* in your daily life, how you have built images about your wife, your husband, your neighbor, your child, your country, your leaders, your politicians, your gods--you have nothing but images. The images create the space between you and what you observe and in that space there is conflict, so what we are going to find out now together is whether it is possible to be free of the space we create, not only outside ourselves but in ourselves, the space which divides people in all their relationships. Now the very attention you give to a problem is the energy that solves that problem. When you give your complete attention--I mean with everything in you--there is no observer at all. There is only the state of attention which is total energy, and that total energy is the highest form of intelligence. Naturally that state of mind must be completely silent and that silence, that stillness, comes when there is total attention, not disciplined stillness. That total silence in which there is neither the observer nor the thing observed is the highest form of a religious mind. But what takes place in that state cannot be put into words because what is said in words is not the fact. To find out for yourself you have to go through it."
J. Krishnamurti - Freedom from the Known
