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Anais Nin
Book Bits

The Expression of a Better World – Anaïs Nin on Transience and the Painful, Familiar Beauty of Music

November 20, 2021November 19, 2021 Vanessa Able

Anaïs Nin on music, mortality, and what it is to glimpse a joyful vision of a land from which we came and which we have forgotten.

Tagged Death, exile, impermanence, intervals, music, nostalgia, notes, sorrow, space, transience1 Comment
Micro Gallery

Tamerlie Philippe – Fading Memories

November 17, 2021November 16, 2021 Vanessa Able

Inspired by memories from her country of origin, Haiti, Tamerlie Philippe's faceless paintings are an ambivalent, diminishing recollection of home.

Tagged childhood, faces, fading, Haiti, impermanence, memory, painting, transience1 Comment
Ellen Bass
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Ellen Bass – If You Knew

June 16, 2021June 8, 2021 Vanessa Able

What if you knew you'd be the last to touch someone? Ellen Bass draws us in to the brief moments of contact that fill our day and urges us to consider the fleeting nature of every life we meet.

Tagged Compassion, contact, Death, impermanence, Kindness, Poetry, relationship, touch, transienceLeave a comment
Milarepa
The Masters, Tibetan Texts

Milarepa’s Song of Transiency and Delusion

May 3, 2021May 3, 2021 Vanessa Able

Milarepa is a much-loved figure in the Tibetan tradition, renowned for his songs that expound the teaching of the Buddha and his own dharmic worldview.

Tagged Awakening, delusion, dharma, impermanence, milarepa, Tibetan buddhism, transience1 Comment
Shunryu Suzuki
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Buddhism’s Most Basic Teaching: Everything Changes

April 19, 2021April 23, 2021 Vanessa Able

Shunryu Suzuki on our inability to accept the truth that we and everything around us are in a state of constant flux.

Tagged acceptance, Buddhism, change, Everything changes, impermanence, Suffering, transformation, transience, Zen, Zen Mind Beginners Mind2 Comments
Erich Von Hungen
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Erich von Hungen – The Moment

May 21, 2020May 21, 2020 Vanessa Able

The pinpoint perspective of the present moment can feel so sharp but ultimately always impossible to fathom and out of our reach. As Erich von Hungen writes, it is simultaneously hard and soft, early and late, tiny and all-encompassing 'like a pocket-sized Big Bang.'

Tagged duration, Emptiness, impermanence, moment, nothingness, present, Silence, time, transienceLeave a comment
edna st vincent millay
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Edna St. Vincent Millay – “When You, That at This Moment Are to Me”

May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 Vanessa Able

This sonnet by American poet and playwright Edna St. Vincent Millay is addressed to a lover and to the latent sense of impermanence and loss built in to all moments when one becomes conscious of great love or great happiness.

Tagged Death, Heart, impermanence, love, pathos, Poetry, sonnet, transienceLeave a comment
Heidi Woo
Featured, Featured Poetry

Heidi Woo – The Heart of Our Home

April 1, 2020April 1, 2020 Vanessa Able

The Heart of Our Home is a poem about moving one's life and a meditation on building a new life in a new place that touches upon themes of nostalgia, renewal, and hope

Tagged home, Immigration, moving, transience2 Comments
Arthur Sze
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Arthur Sze – First Snow

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 Vanessa Able

Arthur Sze's postmodern poetic style includes elements of Taoist and Zen philosophy written in a deeply observational style. Influenced by William Carlos Williams and Chinese poets like Bei Dao, Arthur Sze's work can be a difficult but rewarding read.

Tagged American Poetry, Arthur Sze, First Snow, impermanence, Poetry, transienceLeave a comment
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