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Lael Johnson

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Don't leave anything for later.

Later, the coffee gets cold.

Later, you lose interest.

Later, the day turns into night.

Later, people grow up.

Later, people grow old.

Later, life goes by.

Later, you regret not doing something... When you had the chance.

Life is a fleeting dance, a delicate balance of moments that unfold

A Man

Keiichiro Hirano

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Some people also suffer from the misconception that Isao Takahata-san and I are both some sort of environmentalists, and that we will make a film out of anything as long as it has an ecological theme or message. Nothing could be further from the truth. Such a film would be like a big fat dried-up log, propped upright. What we need is a living

Hayao Miyazaki • Starting Point: 1979-1996

“Our memory is made up of our individual memories and our collective memories. The two are intimately linked. And history is our collective memory. If our collective memory is taken from us – is rewritten – we lose the ability to sustain our true selves.”

Haruki Murakami • 1Q84: Books 1 and 2

“I have always been able to remember everything about you from the side. Your profile, the way you walk, how you talk—that’s the way I always think of you. From the front, I can’t recall a thing. Strange, isn’t it?”

—Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

That’s called threefold logic, and that kind of logic could be used in designing or producing a work of art. We could describe that as the heaven, earth, and human principle used in the Japanese tradition of flower arranging, or as the three bodies of the tantric art of Tibetan vajrayana Buddhism—dharmakaya, sambhogakaya, and nirmanakaya.

Chogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art

One Robe, One Bowl: The Zen Poetry of Ryokan

John Stevens • 1 highlight