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Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being
The day the mountains move has come. Or so I say, though no one will believe me. The mountains were merely asleep for a while. But in ages past, they had moved, as if they were on fire. If you don't believe me, that's fine with me. All I ask is that you believe this and only this, That at this very moment, women are awakening from their deep slumber. If I could but write entirely in the first person, I, who am a woman. If I could write entirely in the first person, I, I. -Yosano Akiko These are the first lines from Yosano Akiko's longer poem Sozorogoto {Rambling Thoughts}, which were first published in the inaugural issue of the feminist magazine Seit {Bluestocking}, in September 1911.
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Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being
This is the chapter in which he praises his young monks for their commitment to a path of awakening and explicates the granular nature of time: the 6,400,099,980 moments40 that constitute a single day. His point is that every single one of those moments provides an opportunity to reestablish our will. Even the snap of a finger, he says, provides us with sixty-five opportunities to wake up and to choose actions that will produce beneficial karma and turn our lives around.
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Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being
I knew I was dead, even if my parents didn't notice.
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Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being
memories are time beings,
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Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being
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 and truly live our lives.
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Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being
I thought I understood everything about cruelty, but it turns out, I didn't understand anything at all.
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Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being
I have to hurry up and write them down before I forget. 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 fade and die.
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Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being
I am more grateful now than ever for the way you raised us, teaching us the value of kindness, of education, of independent thinking and liberal ideals, in the face of the fascism that is sweeping our country.
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Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being
Do you have to live to be a hundred to really grow up?
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Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being
As he ran through the dense understory, he could read the signs of arboreal intrigue, the drama and power struggles as species vied for control over a patch of sunlight, or giant firs and fungal spores opted to work together for their mutual benefit. He could see time unfolding here, and history, embedded in the whorls and fractal forms of nature, and he would come home, sweating and breathless, and tell her what he'd seen.
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Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being
saddened. Cheered at the thought of the many instants that arise and are available to do good in the world. Saddened by all the misspent moments that have piled on top of each other and led us to this war.
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Ruth Ozeki _ A Tale for the Time Being
even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the course of our action either toward the attainment of truth or away from it. Each instant is utterly critical to the whole world.
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