1. Pleasure (excepting sin)
2. Tears
3. The compassion of friends
4. Contemplation of the truth
5. Sleep and baths
—Saint Thomas Aquinas
Downstairs Circuit
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.
Take Liberty
The coming months will be a favorable time to triple your devotion to the art of rowdy fun. I urge you to attend more revels and celebrations than usual, and always be ready to energize social functions with infusions of festive wit and gleeful conviviality. You will also have extra power to inject buoyant amusements into your intimate liaisons. Therefore, dear Libra, I designate you to be the Party Maestra of the Zodiac. I hope you will carry out your role with maximum exuberance, ingenuity, and joy.
—Rob Brezsny
Big Pink Square
Preserve the purity of your mind.
She who possesses talent
should be purer than all others.
Much is forgiven to another,
which is not forgiven to her.
—The Portrait, Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
Patience Is All
It is now better and better understood that the social improvements which we all so passionately desire can be achieved through normal evolutionary development — with immeasurably fewer losses and without all-encompassing decay. We must be able to improve, patiently, that which we have in any given “today.”
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn