‘Self-being is only real in communication with another self-being.’ Karl Jaspers
Day 538: From the Soul's Point of View
‘I have come to kindle a fire on earth; and what would I rather than that it burnt already.’ Jesus
Day 537: It's Not What You Do, It's How You Do It
‘Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly in the air? You have done no better than a bluebottle. Conquer your heart; then you may become somebody.’ Ansari of Herat
Day 536: Some Day I Wish to be Only a Yes-Sayer
‘We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.’ Kurt Vonnegut
Day 535: Thou Art That Which is Perfect(ing)
‘There may be more beautiful times, but this one is ours.’ Jean-Paul Sartre
Day 534: Looking the World in the Eyes is a Difficult Thing
‘If anything is worth doing, do it with all your heart.’ The Buddha
Day 533: The Path of an Open Heart in Hard Places
‘To suffer death and be reborn is not easy.’ Fritz Perls
Day 532: Living on the Causal Plane of Existence
‘May I know once again that although we are different, yet there is a peaceful place where we are one.’ Prayer of Compassionate Evocation
Day 531: Action Tests Resolve (or Reap What Ye Sow)
‘A soul cannot develop and progress without an approximate body, because it is the physical body that furnishes the material for its development.’ Franz Hartmann
Day 530: What Matters Most is How Well One Emerges From a Dream
‘There is no work of art that does not indicate an opening for life, a path between the cracks. Everything I have written has been vitalistic, at least I hope so, and constitutes a theory of signs and the event.’ Gilles Deleuze
Day 529: Dreams Are (Not) Real
‘See a cliff, jump off.’ Lady Jaye
Day 528: Dreaming of Desire
‘Nature’s intent is neither food nor drink nor clothing, nor comfort, nor anything else from which God is left out. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, secretly Nature seeks and hunts and tries to ferret out the trace in which God may be found.’ Meister Eckhart
Day 527: Dreaming in Black and White
‘No tree can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down into hell.’ Carl Jung
Day 526: In Spirit, Body Acts
‘To turn toward does not imply merely to turn away, but to confront, to lose one’s way, to move aside.’ Deleuze & Guattari
Day 525: You Can (Not) Go Back
‘While we go with the stream, we are unconscious of its rapid course; but when we begin to stem it ever so little, it makes itself felt.’ Fénelon
Setting the Wheel of Time in Motion
‘Here we are,’ said the fool. He paused and looked as if to be admiring something.
Day 524: The Heart Tells Itself What to Do
‘One does not conform to a model, one straddles the right horse.’ Deleuze & Guattari
Day 523: Light by the Light
‘One who lives alone is either a Beast or a God.’ Aristotle
Day 522: Fate Is...
‘Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever one sows, one will reap in return.’ Galatians 6:7
Day 521: Self-fulfilling Omens
‘When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.’ Shakespeare, Julius Caesar