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Mon 26 Jun 2023

Black Holes

Posted by PJ under nothingness, quote of the day, self-knowledge, the past, the shadow
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Random quote of the day:

“Black holes out there in the universe are nothing compared to the black holes in our own past. Those holes are much more than ordinary gaps. They have the power to destroy our ideas about ourselves and bring us face to face with nothingness.”

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Fri 21 Apr 2023

Look back

Posted by PJ under future, knowledge, quote of the day, the past, the present
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Random quote of the day:

“It’s so easy to think we have superior knowledge, that our understanding is better. We love to correct the errors of the past in terms of what we now think is true. But who’s going to correct our errors? Everyone used to know that the sun goes round the earth; now everyone believes they know that the earth goes round the sun. The trouble is that every great step in understanding always demolishes and overturns the knowledge that went before. People will only look back on us in the way we look back at the past.

—Peter Kingsley, In the Dark Places of Wisdom

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 13 Apr 2023

Present

Posted by PJ under future, quote of the day, the past, the present
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Random quote of the day:

“You can’t go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy’s time nor your children’s if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got.

―Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 14 Feb 2023

Leaves

Posted by PJ under books, quote of the day, the past
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Random quote of the day:

“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends can only read the title.

—Virginia Woolfe, Jacob’s Room

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Fri 9 Dec 2022

Lamp

Posted by PJ under experience, future, quote of the day, the past
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Random quote of the day:

“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.

—Patrick Henry, “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” Speech, March 23, 1775

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Thu 17 Nov 2022

Change

Posted by PJ under change, chaos, courage and fear, future, quote of the day, the past, the present
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Random quote of the day:

“In a time of drastic change one can be too preoccupied with what is ending or too obsessed with what seems to be beginning. In either case one loses touch with the present and with its obscure but dynamic possibilities. You do not need to know what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and embrace them with courage, faith and hope. In such an event, courage is the authentic form taken by love.

—Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Bert and Ernie, Celine Dion, or the Band of the Coldstream Guards. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Tue 16 Jun 2020

Shadow

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, shadows, the past, the shadow
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Random quote of the day:

“Your past is your shadow. It has form but no substance, except in the places you allow it to touch you.”

―Tananarive Due, Blood Colony

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

 

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Tue 28 Jan 2020

Past

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the past
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Random quote of the day:

“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it’s us without our past?”

—John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this random quote of the day do not necessarily reflect the views of the poster, her immediate family, Key and Peele, Celine Dion, or Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. They do, however, sometimes reflect the views of the Cottingley Fairies.

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Mon 25 Mar 2019

Second heart

Posted by PJ under quote of the day, the past
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Random quote of the day:

“The past beats inside me like a second heart.”

—John Banville, The Sea

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Tue 20 Nov 2018

Ephemera

Posted by PJ under ephemera, quote of the day, the past
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Random quote of the day:

“The past is best left to itself. I find that when it touches the present, it vanishes like a forgotten dream.”

—The Countess de Longvic, in Tahir Shah’s The Caliph’s House

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