note to self

 

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We invented phonetic writing so we could put our sounds down on paper and, by glancing at a page, hear someone speaking in our head—an invention that became so widespread in the last few thousand years that we hardly ever stop to consider how astonishing it is.

—Carl Sagan

Billions & Billions: houghts on Life and Death

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What you’re going to write is already there in the darkness.

It’s not a matter of passing from one state to another. It’s a matter of deciphering something already there, something you’ve always done in the sleep of your life, in its organic rumination, unbeknown to you.


—Marguerite Duras
from Practicalities
Barbara Bray version 

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It is not the work that hinders (peace) but the idea that

it is you who are doing it.

—Sri Ramana Maharshi

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