
A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)

Both life and death manifest in every moment of existence. Our human body appears and disappears moment by moment, without cease, and this ceaseless arising and passing away is what we experience as time and being. They are not separate. They are one thing, and in even a fraction of a second, we have the opportunity to choose, and to turn the cours
... See moreRuth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
Life is fleeting! Don’t waste a single moment of your precious life! Wake up now! And now! And now!
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
Time itself is being, he wrote, and all being is time . . . In essence, everything in the entire universe is intimately linked with each other as moments in time, continuous and separate.
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
“To study the Way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be enlightened by all the myriad things.”
Ruth Ozeki • A Tale for the Time Being: A Novel (ALA Notable Books for Adults)
In Japan, some words have kotodama,56 which are spirits that live inside a word and give it a special power.