You need not do anything. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, just wait. You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still and solitary. And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked. It has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. – […]
“Your focus is your reality.” – the front cover of my notebook from Half-Price Books.
“Thus there is such a thing as being too profound. Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the moutaintops where she is found.” – Edgar Allan […]
“Think small. If you have a big mind, that will show itself. If you can’t think small, try philosophy or social criticism.”― Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
“If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change, free of pain, free of the […]
“Are we faulting her for being human?” – a student in my Early Modern Women Writers class on value judgments and women who do not nurture
“Don’t build the vision of your life on your current circumstances, build it on what you can imagine.” – Anita Hill (from her speech at Barnard two weeks ago)
Virginia Woolf’s New Year’s resolutions, January 2, 1931 via Lauren Elkin: Here are my resolutions for the next 3 months; the next lap of the year. To have none. Not to be tied. To be free & kindly with myself, not goading it to parties: to sit rather privately reading in the studio. To […]
As I mentioned on the past two posts, I attended the Womensphere Emerging Leaders Summit this week, whose theme was Creating the Future. I left the conference feeling truly honored to have listened to these amazing women speakers who are all doing great work in their fields. Here are a few of the many inspiring […]
Today? A round-up of wisdom, some clichéd and others not, that bears repeating.* (via My Modern Met) The world will not end should you decide not to engage with it. “Be different from one another, and love our differences with big, open hearts.” – Sally McGraw from Already Pretty The memories you make are all […]