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Quote #28: The Door of Opportunity…or of Truth
Illustration 2013 jpbohannon “The truth knocks on the door and you say, ‘Go away, I’m looking for the truth,’ and so it goes away. Puzzling.” Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
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Quote #34: “First they ignore you…“
illustration 2014 by jpbohannon “First they ignore you. then they laugh at you. then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
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Beware of Maya: Illusion, Cary Grant, Wes Anderson and Owen in Paris
The Grand Budapest Hotel Towards the end of Wes Anderson’s latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, the elderly Moustafa (played by F. Murray Abrahams) says this about his mentor, the concierge M. Gustav...
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Quote #39: “In a mind clear as still water…”
illustration 2014 by jpbohannon (after Hokusai) “In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.” Dogen Zenji
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Book Review: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki by Haruki Murakami
I used to think that it was only Americans who were so caught up with the experience of “High School.” I had believed it was an American construct, an over-idealized rite of passage that had spawned...
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Quote #54: “Love not lightly” from M Train by Patti Smith
“Zen Stone in Western Sky” 2016 by jpbohannon
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Rumi on Figs
Figs The Ripe Fig Now that you live here in my chest, anywhere we sit is a mountaintop. And those other images, which have enchanted people like porcelain dolls from China, which have made men and...
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Book Review: Beeswing–Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 by Richard...
Richard Thompson (© by jpbohannon 2018) Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice 1967-1975 Algonquin Books, 2001 At the beginning of the pandemic, in late March 2020, Bob Dylan released a near...
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