Words
Reading daily and reading slowly.
Patiently absorbing the text.
It builds a layer of humus inside of you.
​
One day wondrous things will sprout
from that layer of humus...
-- Willem Vermandere (cabaret singer)
I live off the rich harvest
from the humus of
sustained reading.
-- Bieke Vandekerckhove
The great writings
that take up the central issues of life
interact with one another.
They cannot be read in isolation.
-- Richard J. Foster
In the search for understanding,
what’s worse than using
a tangle of words?
​
You’re just swinging a stick
as if you could hit the moon,
scratching a boot
as if you could itch a foot!
​
-- No-Gate Gateway:
the original Wu-Men Kuan,
translated by David Hinton
Just as it would be difficult to read the text
if there were no spaces between the words,​
so living without taking time for silence
makes our lives jumbled and garbled ...
-- Mary C. Earle
Happiness is when...
what you THINK,
what you SAY,
and what you DO,
are in harmony.
-- Ghandi
My life has been the poem
I would have writ
But I could not both live
and utter it.
-- Henry David Thoreau
