Everybody's favorite part of the semester is upon us again. I fear that only Zen can see us through.
I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If a window looks wrong in a picture open, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. One must act in a painting as in life, directly.
—Pable Picasso
The invariable mark of wisdom is seeing the miraculous in the common.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Day begins with the morning bell.
Night is long, empty moon still in the sky.
Everything must end.
—Fujiwara no Ietaka
Now that I've shed my skin completely,
one true reality alone exists.
—Zen saying
In a Nasreddin story, we see him crossing the frontier each day with mules laden with sacks. Each time, the sacks are searched, but nothing is found. And Nasreddin continues to cross the frontier with his mules. Long afterwards, they ask him what in fact it was he was smuggling. And Nasreddin replies: "I was smuggling mules."
—Baudrillard
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