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Anna Burns • Milkman
When we try to grab it, up we go and down we come, with nothing but another high to add to our collection of moldering butterflies.
Stephen Levine • Grist for the Mill: Awakening to Oneness
An owner and his home vie in their impermanence, as the vanishing dew upon the morning glory.
Chomei • Essays in Idleness: and Hojoki (Penguin Classics)
The higher the position you occupy among other people, the more humble you should be. Many people live in height and glory, but the mysteries of this world can be revealed only to those who are humble.
Leo Tolstoy • A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, Written and Se
Kii is as good a place as any to meditate on the past. Folks here cultivate a healthy relationship with decay. The right storm could wipe it all clean overnight. And that’s fine, they seem to say, and sometimes outright say it.
Craig Mod • Things Become Other Things: A Walking Memoir
Hallsands, which had fallen into the sea,
Keith Richards • Life
being tossed about on the surface of the oceans.