goodbye

“Paying attention to experience requires new skills, or at leaf new habits….Our attitudes about experience are usually governed by familiar concepts, and those familiar concepts don’t really do justice to the great variety we actually experience.”-Alva Noe
note: excerpts from: http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2014/12/30/373952810/in-search-of-a-science-of-consciousness

This is my last entry for now on this blog. I don’t know when I’ll start it again.

What's love?

“The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.”-Thomas Merton

a lesson

"I was humbled on the mountain, in an almost biblical sense, virtually every day.”

note: from Running to the Mountain, A Midlife Adventure by Jon Katz

In the beginning

"The formation of faith is an ever-growing and deepening understanding of Divine Reality and our own reality…” -Richard Rohr

note: from Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation

examination

end of the year
my examined life
humility and gratitude.

opening lines

"By nightfall the head lines will be about devastation.” The opening lines of Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazard. Talking about the weather or maybe not.

“I’m often asked what’s it’s like to be married to a genius.” The opening lines of  The Mind and Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein

Books I’m reading: The Transit of Venus and The Mind and Body Problem

Books I just finished reading: Lisette’s List by Susan Vreeland and The Strange Library by Haruki Murakami

truth

“In the mountains of truth  you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.”-Friedrich Nietzsche
note: quoted in The Consolations of Philosophy, Alain de Botton