Thought for the Day

[. . .] it does seem to me that attention is kind of the entrance

gate to anything and everything. [. .] Nothing in this world

can be done well if you're not paying attention. If you're 

distracted, if you haven't learned how to bring yourself in an

immediate and wholehearted way into whatever it is you are

doing, in a way, you don't have your life. [. . .]

~ Jane Hirshfield

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Quoted from "On Time, Mystery, and Kinship: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield" in Emergence Magazine, October 24, 2024 (Online) The conversation was conducted by Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee and is available as audio at the link.

Jane Hirshfield, Poet, Essayist, Translator; Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Thought for the Day

This is precisely the time when artists to to work.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity,

no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak,

we write [. . .] That is how civilizations heal.

~ Toni Morrison

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Quoted from Toni Morrison, "No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear" in The Nation (150th Anniversary Issue), April 6, 2015 (Online)

Toni Morrison (1931 - 2019), American Novelist, Editor; Recipient, Nobel Prize in Literature

New York Times Obituary for Toni Morrison

Thought for the Day

Both emptiness and form are saturated with love.

And our love for each other and for the Earth is

the most natural expression of this one quality.

~ Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

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Quoted from Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, "Unborn and Undying" (Essay) in Emergence Magazine, November 3, 2024 (Online) An audio presentation by Vaughan-Lee also is available at the link.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Sufi Teacher, Author, Editor, Lecturer

Thought for the Day

Who would dream for us to be better if it were not

the artist? And who would show us the way if it

were not for the storyteller?

~ Jamaica Osorio

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Quoted in Introductory Remarks to "Shifting Landscapes Film Series" in October 6, 2024, Newsletter of Emergence Magazine

See Adam Loften's and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee's Film "Aloha 'Aina" with Jamaica Osorio

Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, Ph.D., Native Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli) Poet; Activist; Author, Remembering our Intimacies (University of Minnesota Press, 2021); Associate Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

Jamaica Osorio Website