28 February 2011

for us / a brightness / impelled to be uttered

Gael Turnbull
Become a good listener. Most teachers prefer to be the one listened to.

26 February 2011

It's organisms that die, not life.

Gilles Deleuze
To polarize being and becoming is to misunderstand time. To polarize feeling and thinking is to misunderstand human being/becoming.
Confident not in what I know and what I do, but in what I am and in what I am becoming.

25 February 2011

Heart is simply my response to the Other.

24 February 2011

My lightness frees time and allows it to dance delicately rather than plod inexorably.
Softness is not resisting the natural process for each element, entity, moment to be alive in itself.
Discover the moment

23 February 2011

In suffering there is an absence of all refuge. It is the fact of being directly exposed to being. It is made of the impossibility of fleeing or retreating.

Emmanuel Levinas
from the threshold of existence
Through togetherness we not only share the moment, we exceed the moment, and that excess takes us both beyond our wildest dreams. This is the miracle of togetherness – to be transformed and transported to a more meaningful time.

22 February 2011

Not just down onto the Earth, and extending into the Earth, but sprouting upwards from the Earth. The same with the Other. Not only are my hands on their body, and my energy extending into their body, but my spirit issues as though from their body.

21 February 2011

We need to consider the possibility that the world outruns any categories we might seek to use to capture it.

Todd May
Humility is remembering God