tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36833762068589376622012-01-28T14:36:27.535-08:00noonenoreply@blogger.comBlogger61100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3683376206858937662.post-67277231098807633132008-10-12T13:32:00.000-07:002008-10-12T13:37:39.666-07:00Winning does not tempt that man.<div>This is how he grows; by being defeated, decisively</div><div>By constantly greater beings.</div><div><br /></div><div>- <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: -webkit-sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px; ">Rainer Maria Rilke, <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The Man Watching</span></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3683376206858937662-6727723109880763313?l=azldraken.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>noonenoreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3683376206858937662.post-59511407755705497022008-08-09T12:55:00.000-07:002008-08-09T13:05:35.290-07:00<pre style="font-family: arial;">Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita<br />mi ritrovai per una selva oscura<br />ché la diritta via era smarrita<br /><br />In the middle of the road of my life<br />I awoke in a dark wood<br />Where the true way was wholly lost<br /><br />- Dante Alighieri, <span style="font-style: italic;">La Divina Commedia</span>, Inferno: Canto I<br />trans Dorothy Sayers and Barbara Reynolds<br /></pre><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3683376206858937662-5951140775570549702?l=azldraken.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>noonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3683376206858937662.post-73629033062809355472008-07-29T16:00:00.000-07:002008-07-29T16:04:47.378-07:00A hand moves, and the fire's whirling takes different shapes.<br />...all things change when we do.<br />The first word, Ah! blossomed into all others.<br />Each of them is true<br /><br />- Kukei, 8th century Zen master<br /> - trans. Jane Hirschfield<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3683376206858937662-7362903306280935547?l=azldraken.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>noonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3683376206858937662.post-63723761817536769782008-07-25T09:47:00.000-07:002008-07-29T16:06:36.118-07:00<span style="font-style: italic;">Stand still. The trees ahead and the bushes beside you</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Must ask permission to know it and be known.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The forest breaths. Listen. It answers,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I have made this place around you,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">If you leave you may come back again, saying Here.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">No two trees are the same to Raven.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">No two branches are the same to Wren.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">If what a tree or brush does is lost on you,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Where you are. You must let it find you.</span><br />- David Wagoner from a Native American teaching tale<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3683376206858937662-6372376181753676978?l=azldraken.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>noonenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3683376206858937662.post-51762996807740623352008-07-23T16:55:00.000-07:002008-07-23T17:00:59.592-07:00In developing my thesis I need to narrow my interests to a single research topic. As my Profs say "Focus on one angel dancing on the head of one pin". But every time I look into my area of interest, I discover another interesting aspect - "Ooo shiny" or as an undergrad prof used to say "Every time I try to study something in isolation, I discover it is attached to the rest of the universe".<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3683376206858937662-5176299680774062335?l=azldraken.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>noonenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3683376206858937662.post-18609763854693971512008-07-21T17:29:00.000-07:002008-08-06T16:22:44.388-07:00<span style="font-style: italic;">The way through the world</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Is more difficult to find than the way beyond it</span><br />- Wallace Stevens<br />"Reply to Papini"<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3683376206858937662-1860976385469397151?l=azldraken.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>noonenoreply@blogger.com1