Why?

"If they say 'why, why?'
Tell 'em that it's human nature.
Why, why, does he do me that way?
If they say 'why, why?'
Tell 'em that it's human nature.
Why, why, does he do me that way?
I like living this way."

---Michael Jackson, from the song "Human Nature"

(They say "it always happens in Threes"...Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, and now...)

Temptation

"I can resist anything but temptation."

---Oscar Wilde

Undisguised

"I will go to the bank by the wood and become undisguised and naked,: I am mad for it to be in contact with me."

---Walt Whitman

Routine

"Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine."

---Shunryu Suzuki

Three Stages

"All truth passes through three stages. First it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third it is accepted as self-evident."

---Arthur Schopenhauer

Focus

"If it's in focus, it's pornography. If it's out of focus, it's art."

---Linda Hunt as 'Billy Kwan' in the 1982 film "The Year of Living Dangerously"

Excellence

"With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must also try to have and use it."

---Aristotle


photo: screen legend Yul Brynner

Now

"Don't let the past remind us of what we are not now."

---from "Suite Judy Blue Eyes", by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Exposure

"What you see, you become."

---Tom Bianchi (from the Vedas)

Ocean of Truth

"I do not know what I seem to the world, but to myself I appear to have been like a boy playing upon the seashore and diverting myself by now and then finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay before me all undiscovered."

---Isaac Newton