It is in vain that we can predict and control the course of events in the future, unless we know how to live in the present.
—Alan Watts
It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget th...
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It is in vain that we can predict and control the course of events in the future, unless we know how to live in the present.
—Alan Watts
It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget th...
A new year starts today. Happy New Year! As I have in past years, I think it’s also worth noting that another year will start tomorrow, too. One also started yesterday. In fact, countless new years have started just now, during the seconds it took you to read this sentence. May they all be beautiful, interesting, and meaningful!
It seems to me that the most damaging restrictions on an artist’s liberty are self-imposed. So often, what may have begun as fresh thinking and discovery is turned into a routine and reduced to mere habit. Habits in thinking or technique are always stultifying in the long run. They are also contagious, and when a certain set of...
The question, O me! so sad, recurring—What good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists and identity, That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse.
—Walt Whitman
Whether art and beauty can really make man better and stronger is an open question; but one thing is certain: that like the starry firmament they remind us of light, of order and harmony, and of “meaning” amid chaos.
—Hermann Hesse
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