When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.
Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation. - Ruth Ozeki
Life is evanescent, but left to itself it rarely fails to offer some consolation.
- Ruth Ozeki
Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up … - Ruth Ozeki
Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up …
I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they … - Ruth Ozeki
I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they …
I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do. - Ruth Ozeki
I think that if we don't learn to inhabit other people's perspectives, then we're never going to understand why people do what they do.
Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now! - Ruth Ozeki
Life is fleeting. Don't waste a single moment of your precious life. Wake up now! And now! And now!
My mind is like a gyre and odd juxtapositions happen. - Ruth Ozeki
My mind is like a gyre and odd juxtapositions happen.
But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then. - Ruth Ozeki
But in the time it takes to say now, now is already over. It's already then.
Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after … - Ruth Ozeki
Do all kids have to worry about their parents’ mental health? The way society is set up, parents are supposed to be the grown-up ones and look after …
The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity. - Ruth Ozeki
The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.
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