MonkYard

Outside the monastery, taking a stroll in the MonkYard. One or two tweets daily. On a good day we don't tweet at all.

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

The Master says: We ignore the #profound and #miraculous in life, for it is presented to us as simple and familiar.

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

Despite the larger cosmic accident of all life and the chance nature of our particular lives within it, we experience ourselves and our existence as non-accidental.

Simone de Beauvoir on how #chance and #choice converge to make us who we are:
https://t.co/10nySlW2KC

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

बे-तलब दें तो मज़ा उसमे सिवा मिलता है
वो गदा जिस मे न हो ख़ू-ए-सवाल अच्छा है

#Ghalib

If one gives / If one gets to give without being asked, one gets special pleasure in it

that beggar is preferable in whom there is no 'habit of asking'

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

By the age of 70, he who doesn't read will have lived only one life. He who reads will have lived 5000 years. Reading is immortality backwards.

Umberto Eco

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

Buy @YahiaLababidi's book of poems 'Palestine Wail' here:
https://t.co/SQzMYJGlj0

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

Yahia Lababidi’s 'Palestine Wail' is poignant, powerful, and personal—a slim #book that feels hefty in emotional reach. Writing from his Palestinian heritage and a long engagement with spiritual and ethical questions, @YahiaLababidi shapes poems...
#Review
https://t.co/7lbzTpOD91

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to...

⁠Sylvia Plath

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

#Neuroscience isn’t dissolving #philosophy’s hardest problems — it’s forcing us to rethink where they live:
@DrRachelBarr
https://t.co/e8wzTUinQD

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

For anyone who grew up with an abusive or narcissistic parent, Franz #Kafka's poignant lament to his father is a must read.

Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to His #Abusive and #Narcissistic Father:
https://t.co/CCpsCLsWon

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

The helper must first humble himself under the person he wants to help and thereby understand that to help is not to dominate but to serve, that to help is not to be the most dominating but the most patient...

Søren Kierkegaard

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

The helper must first humble himself under the person he wants to help and thereby understand that to help is not to dominate but to serve, that to help is not to be the most dominating but the most patient...

Søren Kierkegaard

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

For anyone who grew up with an abusive or narcissistic parent, Franz #Kafka's poignant lament to his father is a must read.

Kafka’s Remarkable Letter to His #Abusive and #Narcissistic Father:
https://t.co/CCpsCLsWon

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

#Neuroscience isn’t dissolving #philosophy’s hardest problems — it’s forcing us to rethink where they live:
@DrRachelBarr
https://t.co/e8wzTUinQD

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn’t make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to...

⁠Sylvia Plath

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

Buy @YahiaLababidi's book of poems 'Palestine Wail' here:
https://t.co/SQzMYJGlj0

[Tarak H. Rindani @TarakRindani]

Buy the book here: https://t.co/pE23TOvwCc
here: https://t.co/VCEcp3lSMa
or here: https://t.co/9GV8g7kK5L

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

Yahia Lababidi’s 'Palestine Wail' is poignant, powerful, and personal—a slim #book that feels hefty in emotional reach. Writing from his Palestinian heritage and a long engagement with spiritual and ethical questions, @YahiaLababidi shapes poems...
#Review
https://t.co/7lbzTpOD91

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

By the age of 70, he who doesn't read will have lived only one life. He who reads will have lived 5000 years. Reading is immortality backwards.

Umberto Eco

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

बे-तलब दें तो मज़ा उसमे सिवा मिलता है
वो गदा जिस मे न हो ख़ू-ए-सवाल अच्छा है

#Ghalib

If one gives / If one gets to give without being asked, one gets special pleasure in it

that beggar is preferable in whom there is no 'habit of asking'

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Positively (baring scams & setup artists). But I find it much more honorable to help those who do not ask for help.

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

That men do not learn very much
from the lessons of history
is the most important of all the lessons
that history has to teach.

Aldous Huxley

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

"The hardest thing of all to see is what is really there."

What It’s Like to Be a Falcon: The Peregrine as a Portal to a Way of #Seeing and a State of #Being
https://t.co/MVtjVusbuM

[MonkYard @MonkYard]

All things
near or far
are linked to each other
in a hidden way
by immortal power
so that you cannot pick a flower
without disturbing a star.

Francis Thompson

[ Francis Joseph Thompson (1859–1907) was an English poet. ] I