ladykatza

You’ve all seen this one before. But its FUN.

* Grab the nearest book.

* Open the book to page 56.

* Find the fifth sentence.

* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions if you want to.

* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

There is no fifth sentence, so I’ll just go with the last one.

“I see that if my facts were sufficiently vital and significant -perhaps transmuted into the substance of the human mind — I should need but one book of poetry to contain them all.” - Thoreau quote in “The Little Book of Zen”

Yes, it stays on my computer desk almost always, if its not in my purse.

The quote on that page in its entirety:

“I have commonplace book for facts, and another for poetry, but I find it difficult always to preserve the vague distinction which I had in mind, for the most interesting and beautiful facts are so much the more poetry and that is their success. They are translated from earth to heaven. I see that if my facts were sufficiently vital and significant –perhaps transmuted into the substance of the human mind — I should need but one book of poetry to contain them all.” - Thoreau